🎾Sunday, July 16th, 2023🎾 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 🇷🇴Monday, July 17th🇷🇴 Daily Encouragement

A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on Ikeda Sensei's recent guidance, and more.

🎾Sunday, July 16th, 2023🎾
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"There can be no doubt 

that all people,
from the ruler on down 

to the general populace,
rejoice in and desire 

the stability of the nation
and the peace of the world."*
For the sake of society 

and the sake of all humanity,
let's have dialogue with others 

and share the philosophy 

of the dignity of life with them.
Cherishing in our hearts the spirit of
"Establishing 

the Correct Teaching 

for the Peace of the Land"!

*"On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land"
(WND, Vol.1, page 23
**Rissho Ankoku -
https://www.sokaglobal.org/resources/study-materials/buddhist-concepts/rissho-ankoku-securing-peace-for-the-people.html

Sunday, July 16th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I am as concerned about the illness of your wife, the lay nun Toki, as though it were I myself who is ailing, and day and night I pray to the heavenly gods that she will recover. She has supported the votary of the Lotus Sutra just as she has supplied oil to the lamps, or piled earth around the roots of the trees. I am beseeching the gods of the sun and moon that they will guard her life even at the cost of their own!"

(Prayer for the Lay Nun's Recovery 

- WND, Vol. 2, page 666)
Selection Source: Buddhist study, 

Seikyo Newspaper, July 16th, 2023

🇷🇴Monday, July 17th, 2023🇷🇴
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"It is important to realise that life's positive and negative workings-protective forces and devilish functions—both exist within us. They are like the two sides of the same coin. The Daishonin writes: 'The fundamental nature of enlightenment* manifests itself as Brahma and Shakra [the protective gods of Buddhism], whereas the fundamental darkness [or ignorance]** manifests itself as the devil king of the sixth heaven'*** (WND-1, 1113)."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [88] Faith is the Compass for Victory in Life—Courageously and Cheerfully Sailing the Course to Happiness, Both Positive and Negative Functions Are Inherent in Our Lives, August 22nd, 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study magazine. Translation released June 2023

*Fundamental nature of enlightenment; Also, Dharma nature. 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.

**Fundamental ignorance: Also, fundamental darkness. The most deeply rooted illusion inherent in life, said to give rise to all other illusions. The inability to see or recognise the ultimate truth of the Mystic Law or the negative impulses that arise from such ignorance.

***Devil king of the sixth heaven: Also, devil king or heavenly devil. The king of devils, who dwells in the highest or the sixth heaven of the world of desire. He is also named the heavenly devil Freely Enjoying Things Conjured by Others, one who makes free use of the fruits of others' efforts for his own pleasure. Served by innumerable minions, he obstructs Buddhist practice and delights in sapping the life force of other beings, the manifestation of the fundamental ignorance inherent in life. The devil king is a personification of the negative tendency to force others to one's will at any cost.

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"KOKUDO TAIHEI TENKA ANNON WA
BANMIN NO NEGAU TOKORO NARI"
SHAKAI NO TAME JINRUI NO TAME
SEIMEI SONGEN NO SHISO O KATARO.
RISSHO ANKOKU NO SEISHIN O MUNE NI!

The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
AMA GOZEN NO GOSHORO NO ONKOTO WAGAMI ISSHIN NO UE TO OMOI SORAEBA CHUYA NI TEN NI MOSHI SORO NARI KONO AMA GOZEN WA HOKEKYO NO GYOJA O YASHINAU KOTO TOMOSHIBI NI ABURA O SOE KI NO NE NI TSUCHI O KASANURU GA GOTOSHI NEGAWAKU WA NICHIGATTEN SONO INOCHI NI KAWARI TAMAE TO MOSHI SORO NARI
(New Gosho Zenshu page 1353, 

Gosho Zenshu page 978)

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