A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Even when no one is watching,
let's commit ourselves
to the happiness of our friends.
Such devoted efforts
brings immeasurable benefit.
With the conviction
that the "Mystic Law is our witness"
and the Buddhas and
Bodhisattvas are watching,
let's live up to our noble mission!
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
The great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys.
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra
- OTT, page 211-212)
Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Saturday, June 24th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Cherry blossoms undergo a phenomenon known as "breaking dormancy." This is when their buds, which first form in summer and then go to "sleep" in autumn, are awakened by the cold of winter to prepare for their blossoming in spring. People, too, must brave the challenges of winter to bring their full strength and potential to bloom.
"The Daishonin compares the supreme life state of Buddhahood to cherry blossoms (See WND-1, 1137). There are flowers waiting to bloom inside your hearts as well. Even when things don't go as you'd hoped, if you continue to nourish yourself with the sunlight of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, your worries will produce flowers of wisdom, your hardships flowers of strength and your sorrows flowers of kindness. Your inner brilliance will illuminate not only your own life, but your family, friends and society at large."
Toward 2030—To My Young Successors, the Torchbearers of Justice, [36] Braving the Challenges of Winter to bring Our Lives to Full Bloom, 1st March 2023 issue of Future Journal, translation released June 2023
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
DARE GA MITEINAKU TOMO
TOMO NO KŌFUKU NI TSUKUSHI NUKU.
SONO KENSHIN NI MURYŌ NO FUKUTOKU GA.
"MYŌ NO SHŌRAN" O KAKUSHIN SHITE
TŌTOKI SHIMEI NI IKI YUKŌ!
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O, SUNAWACHI "DAI-KANGI" TO NAZUKU. IWAYURU, NAM-MYŌHŌ-RENGE-KYŌ WA KANKI NO NAKA NO DAI-KANKI NARI.
(New Gosho Zenshu page 1097,
Gosho Zenshu page 788)
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