A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, February 5th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Everyone,
it's "Encouragement Week!"*
By lending an ear
By lending an ear
and listening well
to what friends have to say,
one by one,
let's help them to draw forth
let's help them to draw forth
their natural power and strengths!
Let's cheerfully play out
Let's cheerfully play out
joyful dramas of spreading happiness
for both ourselves and others!
The Japanese organisation has a week in every month where they focus the majority of activities on encouraging their members and friends - phone calls, Email, online chat-chats, home visits (when possible), etc..
Saturday, February 5th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - WND, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Saturday, February 5th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - WND, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Feb. 5th, 2022
Sunday, February 6th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What are we wishing and praying for? What is the vow that motivates us on the deepest level? Our fundamental mindset makes us who we are. We need to imbue our lives with the vow for kosen-rufu, the vow of mentor and disciple. The essence of the Soka Gakkai lies in teaching faith grounded in the direct bond between mentor and disciple. Such faith awakens us to our true identity as Bodhisattvas of the Earth* and enables us to bring forth our innate Buddhahood."
* Bodhisattvas of the Earth: the innumerable bodhisattvas who appear in the "Emerging from the Earth" (15th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra and are entrusted by Shakyamuni with the task of propagating the Law after his passing. In the "Supernatural Powers" (21st) chapter, Shakyamuni entrusts Bodhisattva Superior Practices, the leader of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, with spreading the Law in the Saha world in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law.
Sunday, February 6th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What are we wishing and praying for? What is the vow that motivates us on the deepest level? Our fundamental mindset makes us who we are. We need to imbue our lives with the vow for kosen-rufu, the vow of mentor and disciple. The essence of the Soka Gakkai lies in teaching faith grounded in the direct bond between mentor and disciple. Such faith awakens us to our true identity as Bodhisattvas of the Earth* and enables us to bring forth our innate Buddhahood."
The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [70] Everything Begins with Prayer Infused with the Shared Vow of Mentor and Disciple, The Essence of Nichiren Buddhism, from the February 2021 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released December 2021.
- To be continued tomorrow! And for a while…
* Bodhisattvas of the Earth: the innumerable bodhisattvas who appear in the "Emerging from the Earth" (15th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra and are entrusted by Shakyamuni with the task of propagating the Law after his passing. In the "Supernatural Powers" (21st) chapter, Shakyamuni entrusts Bodhisattva Superior Practices, the leader of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, with spreading the Law in the Saha world in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SA "HAGEMASHI SHUKAN" DA.
HITORI HITORI NO KOE NI MIMI O KATAMUKA
TOMO NO CHIKARA O HIKIDASO!
JITA TOMONO KOFUKU O HIROGERU
KANKI NO GEKI O HOGARAKA NI!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
(Gosho Zenshu page 1351, New Gosho Zenshu page 592)
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