A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Sunday, January 9th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The key to strengthening unity
comes from one person
standing up on their own!
To have faith that burns with conviction
To have faith that burns with conviction
is how the blaze of our shared
struggle spreads,
struggle spreads,
and "then two, three and a hundred"*
are certain to follow!
*The Daishonin states: "At first only Nichiren chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but then two, three and a hundred followed, chanting and teaching others."
*The Daishonin states: "At first only Nichiren chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but then two, three and a hundred followed, chanting and teaching others."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- WND, Vol.1, page 385)
Sunday, January 9th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Becoming a Buddha is nothing extraordinary. If you chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with your whole heart, you will naturally become endowed with the Buddha's thirty-two features and eighty characteristics."
(Letter to Niike
Sunday, January 9th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Becoming a Buddha is nothing extraordinary. If you chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with your whole heart, you will naturally become endowed with the Buddha's thirty-two features and eighty characteristics."
(Letter to Niike
- WND, Vol. 1, page 1030)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Jan. 9th, 2022
Monday, January 10th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo enables you to make your heart stronger and wiser. I hope that you'll bring forth courage by cheering yourself on to do your best and not be defeated, so that you can freely, and in your own unique way, create brightly coloured pictures of hope, victory, friendship and peace."
Monday, January 10th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo enables you to make your heart stronger and wiser. I hope that you'll bring forth courage by cheering yourself on to do your best and not be defeated, so that you can freely, and in your own unique way, create brightly coloured pictures of hope, victory, friendship and peace."
Towards 2030–To Our Bright Beacons of Hope, [17] Paint Big Dreams with Your Heart, from the August 1st, 2021, issue of Hope News, translation released December 2021.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
DANKETSU O TSUYOMERU YOTEI WA
MIZUKARA GA HITORI TATSU KOTO DA!
MOEAGARU SHINNEN KARA
"NININ SANNIN HYAKUNIN TO"
KYOSEN NO HONOO WA KANARAZU HIROGARU!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
HOTOKE NI NARI SORO KOTOWA BETSU NO YO WA SORAWAZU NANMYOHORENGEKYO TO TAJI NAKU TONAE MOSHITE SORAEBA TENNEN TO SANJU NISO HACHIJISSHUKO O SONAURU NARI
(Gosho Zenshu page 1443, New Gosho Zeshu page 2068)
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