A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on Ikeda Sensei's recent guidance, and more.
Sunday, January 8th, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
By lending an understanding ear
to our friend's
concerns and difficulties,
let's do whatever we can,
stay close to them
let's do whatever we can,
stay close to them
and together move forwards.
Let's steadily spread such
Let's steadily spread such
beautiful solidarity
of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth
to the people,
starting with those around us!
Sunday, January 8th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Nichiren's followers are like roaring lions."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
Sunday, January 8th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Nichiren's followers are like roaring lions."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
- WND, Vol. 1, page 996)
Selection Source:
Selection Source:
Ikeda Sensei's message,
Seikyo Newspaper, Jan. 8th, 2023
Monday, January 9th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"It was, Shin'ichi concluded in his poem, because Melos had triumphed over his inner weakness. He also pointed out that once one takes a sad step in retreat, 'then comes the logic of self-justification / that leads him to retreat still further,' and that 'in the idle ease of one who has cast off friends / there is a pain of remorse that will last until the end of life.'* In his closing lines, he wrote:
Monday, January 9th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"It was, Shin'ichi concluded in his poem, because Melos had triumphed over his inner weakness. He also pointed out that once one takes a sad step in retreat, 'then comes the logic of self-justification / that leads him to retreat still further,' and that 'in the idle ease of one who has cast off friends / there is a pain of remorse that will last until the end of life.'* In his closing lines, he wrote:
I would remember this:
'Only the race of truly great valour.
can destroy the obsessions of suspicion and scheming
and bring about the ultimate flowering of human truth.'**
"... Don't let life's temptations lead you astray! Don't let your own laziness defeat you! Keep running admirably as long as you live on the path of the vow and mission you have chosen!"
The New Human Revolution—Vol.28, Songs of Kosen-rufu 64, translation released December 2022.
* Daisaku Ikeda, "The truth of Melos," Songs from my heart: Poems of life and nature, translated by Burton Watson (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), p. 72.
** Ibid., p. 73.
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
TOMO NO NAYAMI NI MIMI O KATAMUKE
DOKOMADEMO YORISOI
ISSHO NI MAE E SUSUMU.
URUWASHIKI JIYU NO RENTAI O
ASHIMOTO KARA HIROGEYUKO!
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
NICHIREN GA ICHIMON WA SHISHI NO HOURU NARI
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
NICHIREN GA ICHIMON WA SHISHI NO HOURU NARI
(New Gosho Zenshu page 1620,
Gosho Zenshu page 1190)
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