A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on Ikeda Sensei's recent guidance, and more.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's welcome all
who come to participate
in our meetings by
"showing them the same respect
"showing them the same respect
we would a Buddha!"*
With warm friendly unity
With warm friendly unity
and harmonious solidarity,
let's make smiles bloom everywhere
let's make smiles bloom everywhere
in our local community.
*"The 'Encouragements' chapter says, '[If you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra], you should rise and greet them from afar, showing them the same respect you would a Buddha.'"
*"The 'Encouragements' chapter says, '[If you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra], you should rise and greet them from afar, showing them the same respect you would a Buddha.'"
- "On the Importance of the '
Expedient Means'
and 'Life Span' Chapters"
(WND, Vol.2, page 749)
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
--- 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,
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
--- 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, May 25th, 2023
Friday, May 26th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In a passage from the 'Expedient Means' chapter of the Lotus Sutra that we recite during morning and evening gongyo, it states: 'Their words are soft and gentle and can delight the hearts of the assembly' (LSOC2, 57). Words of encouragement filled with warmth and kindness delight people's hearts and lead them to happiness. This is the realm of the Mystic Law and our Soka Gakkai districts.
KAIGO NO SANKASHA O
"HOTOKE O UYAMAU GA GOTOKU"
SAIKEIREI DE MUKAEYO!
URUWASHIKI WARAKU NO "scrum" DE
WAGA CHIIKI NI EGAO NO HANA O.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
Friday, May 26th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In a passage from the 'Expedient Means' chapter of the Lotus Sutra that we recite during morning and evening gongyo, it states: 'Their words are soft and gentle and can delight the hearts of the assembly' (LSOC2, 57). Words of encouragement filled with warmth and kindness delight people's hearts and lead them to happiness. This is the realm of the Mystic Law and our Soka Gakkai districts.
"Today, more than ever, people's hearts crave such 'soft and gentle' words, and warm encouragement."
Editorial May/June, Sending Forth a Refreshing Breeze of Encouragement, SGI Newsletter No. 11246, May 2023 Daibyakurenge, translation released April 17th, 2023.
KAIGO NO SANKASHA O
"HOTOKE O UYAMAU GA GOTOKU"
SAIKEIREI DE MUKAEYO!
URUWASHIKI WARAKU NO "scrum" DE
WAGA CHIIKI NI EGAO NO HANA O.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
(New Gosho Zenshu page 592,
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
(New Gosho Zenshu page 592,
Gosho Zenshu page 1351)
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