A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on Ikeda Sensei's recent guidance, and more.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Winter is now in full swing.
Let's be wise about
keeping ourselves
in good condition
through a proper diet,
exercising regularly
and getting plenty of sleep!
The root of this starts with
chanting for victory in our health!
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
If one's heavy karma from the past is not expiated within this lifetime, one must undergo the sufferings of hell in the future, but if one experiences extreme hardship in this life [because of the Lotus Sutra], the sufferings of hell will vanish instantly.
(Lessening One's Karmic Retribution
- WND-1, page 199)
Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin writes: 'You must summon up deep faith, that Myoho-renge-kyo [the Mystic Law] is your life itself' (WND–1, 3). The life state of Buddhahood reveals itself in a mind of deep faith in the Mystic Law.
"Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo aligns our lives with the Mystic Law. Our prayer, therefore, is an intense struggle between our fundamentally enlightened nature – our Dharma nature* – and the fundamental ignorance within us. The Daishonin declares that the 'direct path to enlightenment' is winning in that struggle, and having absolute conviction that our lives embody the Mystic Law.
"It is, in other words, a struggle to awaken to our true self that is originally one with the Mystic Law, of which we were unaware because our minds were clouded by fundamental ignorance. That is why it's important for us to 'regard both suffering and joy as facts of life' (WND–1, 681), and keep chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to win over our inner delusion."
The Buddhism of the Sun--Illuminating the World, [80] Our Powerful Resolve Reverberates throughout the Universe, Chanting to Win Out Over Our Deluded Selves, December 2021 Daibyakurenge, translation released October, 2022.
* Dharma nature: Also, the fundamental nature of enlightenment. The unchanging nature, inherent in all things and phenomena. It is identified with the fundamental Law itself, the essence of the Buddha's enlightenment, or ultimate truth, and the Buddha nature, inherent in life.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
HONKAKU-TEKINA FUYU NO TŌRAI.
TEKISETSUNA SHOKUJI, UNDŌ, SUIMIN TŌ
KISOKU TADASHII SEIKATSU O KOKOROGAKE
SŌMEI NI TAICHŌ O TOTONOEYŌ!
KENKŌ SHŌRI NO INORI O KOMPON NI.
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
SENGŌ NO OMOKI KONJŌ NI TSUKIZUSHITE, MIRAI NI JIGOKU NO KU O UKU BEKI GA, KONJŌ NI KAKARU JŪKU NI AI SŌRAEBA, JIGOKU NO KURUSHIMI PATTO KIETE
(Gosho Zenshu page 1000,
New Gosho Zenshu page 1356)
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