* Today is a Japanese national press holiday to give those involved in preparing and delivering a newspaper a short break. Therefore today there is no "To My Friends," but do not worry we carry on with all the rest of the goodies!…
Sunday, January 2nd, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Therefore, I entreat the people of this country: Do not look down upon my disciples! If you inquire into their past, you will find that they are great bodhisattvas who have given alms to Buddhas over a period of eight hundred thousand million kalpas, and who have carried out practices under Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the HiranyavatΔ« and Ganges rivers. And if we speak of the future, they will be endowed with the benefit of the fiftieth person, surpassing that of one who gave alms to innumerable living beings for a period of eighty years. They are like an infant emperor wrapped in swaddling clothes, or a great dragon who has just been born. Do not despise them! Do not look on them with contempt!"
(On the Four Stages of Faith
"Therefore, I entreat the people of this country: Do not look down upon my disciples! If you inquire into their past, you will find that they are great bodhisattvas who have given alms to Buddhas over a period of eight hundred thousand million kalpas, and who have carried out practices under Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the HiranyavatΔ« and Ganges rivers. And if we speak of the future, they will be endowed with the benefit of the fiftieth person, surpassing that of one who gave alms to innumerable living beings for a period of eighty years. They are like an infant emperor wrapped in swaddling clothes, or a great dragon who has just been born. Do not despise them! Do not look on them with contempt!"
(On the Four Stages of Faith
and the Five Stages of Practice
- WND, Vol. 1, page 788)
Selection Source: New Year's Gosho,
Selection Source: New Year's Gosho,
Seikyo Newspaper, Jan. 1st, 2022
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Filled with the unsurpassed joy of recognising the dignity of our own and others' lives based on our shared potential for Buddhahood, let us make dynamic strides in our human revolution, which directly advances kosen-rufu and world peace."
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Filled with the unsurpassed joy of recognising the dignity of our own and others' lives based on our shared potential for Buddhahood, let us make dynamic strides in our human revolution, which directly advances kosen-rufu and world peace."
New Year Message, January 1st, 2022.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KOU KOKUCHU NO SHONIN WAGA MATTEI TO O KARONZURU KOTO NAKARE SUSUNDE KAKO O TAZUNUREBA HACHIJUMAN OKUKO KUYO SESHI DAIBOSATSU NARI ANI KIREN ICHIGO NO MONO NI ARAZUYA SHIRIZOITE MIRAI O RONZUREBA HACHIJUNEN NO FUSE NI CHOKA SHITE GOJU NO KUDOKU O SONAU BESHI TENSHI NO MUTSUKI NI MATOWARE DAIRYU NO HAJIMETE SHOZURU GA GOTOSHI BETSUJO SURU KOTO NAKARE BETSUJO SURU KOTO NAKARE
(Gosho Zenshu page 342,
New Gosho Zenshu page 270)
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