A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on Ikeda Sensei's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"My victory is Soka's victory!"
Now, aiming towards the peak
of kosen-rufu,
let's each
let's each
bravely challenge ourselves
to achieve new heights!
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. 'All others who bear you enmity or malice will likewise be wiped out.' These golden words will never prove false. The heart of strategy and swordsmanship derives from the Mystic Law. Have profound faith. A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. 'All others who bear you enmity or malice will likewise be wiped out.' These golden words will never prove false. The heart of strategy and swordsmanship derives from the Mystic Law. Have profound faith. A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra
- WND, Vol. 1, page 1001)
Selection Source: Buddhist Study,
Selection Source: Buddhist Study,
Seikyo Newspaper, Jan. 21st, 2023
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The verse section of the 'Life Span' (16th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, which we recite every morning and evening in gongyo, concludes with the lines: 'At all times I think to myself: / How can I cause living beings / to gain entry into the unsurpassed way / and quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?'* (LSOC16, 273).
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The verse section of the 'Life Span' (16th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, which we recite every morning and evening in gongyo, concludes with the lines: 'At all times I think to myself: / How can I cause living beings / to gain entry into the unsurpassed way / and quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?'* (LSOC16, 273).
"Referring to this passage in The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, the Daishonin says: 'The word "think" indicates that the Buddha thinks of the Buddha nature inherent in all living beings' (OTT, 160).
"The daimoku we chant for ourselves and others is the sound and rhythm of our unswerving faith in the Buddha nature of every member of the human race and our commitment to awaken one person after another to that enlightened potential with courage, sincerity and perseverance."
Our Brilliant Human Revolution, Be Champions of Wisdom, Diligently Training in Practice and Study!, September 29th, 2022 issue of Seikyo Newspaper, translation released December 2022
* In gongyo, the passage reads: "Mai ji sa ze nen. I ga ryo shujo. Toku nyu mu-jodo. Soku joju busshin."
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"WATASHI NO SHORI" GA
"SOKA NO SHORI".
SA KOFU NO MINE E
MINA GA JIBUN JISHIN NO
SHINKIROKU NI IDOMO!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
NANI NO HEIHO YORIMO HOKEKYO NO HEIHO O MOCHII TAMOBESHI SHOYO NO ONTEKI WA MINA ZAIMETSU SU NO KINGEN MUNASHIKARU BEKARAZU HEIHO KENGYO NO DAIJI MO KONO MYOHO YORI IDETARI FUKAKU SHINJIN O TORI TAMAE AETE OKUBYO NITEWA KANAU BEKARAZU SORO
(New Gosho Zenshu page 1623,
Gosho Zenshu page 1192)
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