A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's a "leaders'" initiative
in taking action
that inspires everyone
to make their own determination
even stronger,
and, at the same time,
helps to create the unity of
"many in body, one in mind."
Let's each become the one
who is willing to break
through our personal obstacles
or "walls"
and to share the experiences
we subsequently have with others!
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"At the time when the Law has spread far and wide, the entire Japanese nation will chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, as surely as an arrow aimed at the earth cannot miss the target. But now you must build your reputation on the Lotus Sutra and give yourself up to it. "
"The True Aspect of All Phenomena,"
WND-l page 385
Selection Source:
Ikeda Sensei's Encouragement
Seikyo Newspaper: April 26th, 2022
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin likened the compassion of the Buddha to a mother bird warming and hatching her eggs and then teaching her chicks to fly.
"In a famous passage, he says that, just as a baby bird in an egg develops a beak and eyes and eventually soars into the sky, 'we, too, are the eggs of ignorance, which are pitiful things, but when nurtured by the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is like the warmth of the mother bird, we develop the beak of the thirty-two features and the feathers of the eighty characteristics* and are free to soar into the sky of the true aspect of all phenomena and the reality of all things' (WND–1, 1030).
"In other words, when nurtured by 'the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is like the warmth of the mother bird' (WND–1, 1030), anyone can attain the great life state of Buddhahood without fail."
Ascending a New Summit of Kosen-rufu Together < New Series > Let's Spread Our Wings and Soar High Together, Jan. 4th, 2022 Seikyo Newspaper, translation released April 2022.
* Thirty-two features and eighty characteristics: extraordinary features and characteristics attributed to Buddhas.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
RĪDA NO SOSSEN NO SUGATA GA
MINA NO KETSUI O ICHIDAN TO TSUYOME
ITAI-DOSHIN NO DANKETSU O UMU.
MIZUKARA GA KABE O YABURI
SONO TAIKEN O TSUTAEYŌ!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"AMATSU SAE KOSEN-RUFU NO TOKI WA NIHON ICHIDŌ NI NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO TONAEN KOTO WA DAICHI O MATO TO SURUNARU BESHI, TOMOKAKUMO HOKEKYO NI NA O TATE MI O MAKASE TAMŌ BESHI."
("SHOHO JISSO SHO", Gosho Zenshu page 1360, Shin Gosho Zenshu page 1791)
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