Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + Wednesday, Aug. 16 Daily Encouragement

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

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --

"I always feel 

   I'm being rooted for."

"I have someone 

who really cares about me."

Such a sense of 

security and reassurance

is certain to help children develop.

Let's work on 

spending this summer

having open-hearted conversations 

with our children

and carefully listening 

to what they have to say!

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023

--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Could not this illness of your husband's be the Buddha's design, because the Vimalakirti and Nirvana sutras both teach that sick people will surely attain Buddhahood?  Illness gives rise to the resolve to attain the way."

"The  Good Medicine for All Ills", 

WND-l page 937

Selection Source: 

Hipe-filled Philosophy 

  - Report by Doctor Group
Seikyo Newspaper: Aug. 12th, 2023

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"Dr. Lou Marinoff, founding president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association with whom I have published a dialogue,* has remarked that the Soka mentor-disciple relationship represents a way of transmitting the art of living.

"The art of living, he observed, is the art of how to live life, the art of living with values and purpose. Contributing to the happiness of others and realising that this is the way to achieve our own happiness are very important in this regard. And this is the SGI's message to the world, he said. Leading a good life, he continued, is to connect with others and impart a positive message.That may seem a small thing, he added, but it is vitally important. When we inspire one person, that person goes on to exert a positive influence on someone else. This, Dr. Marinoff concluded, is how goodness spreads through a society."**

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [89] A People-Centred Religion—Transmitting the Philosophy of Respect for Life to the Future, The Soka Path of Mentor and Disciple Teaches the Art of Living, from the Daibyakurenge, Soka Gakkai monthly study journal, September 2022, translation released June 2023  

*Lou Marinoff and Daisaku Ikeda, The Inner Philosopher: Conversations on Philosophy's Transformative Power (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dialogue Path Press, 2012).

**Translated from Japanese. From 7th September, 2006, issue of the Seikyo Newspaper .

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --

"ITSUMO OEN SHITE KURERU"

"MIMAMORARETE IRU" TONO

ANSHINKAN KOSO SEICHO NO CHIKARA DA.

KODOMO NO HANASHI NI MIMI O KATAMUKERU

OYAKO NO KATARAI NO NATSU NI!

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

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KONO YAMAI WA HOTOKEN ON HAKARAI KA, SONO YUE WA JOUMYOKYO, NEHANKYO NIWA YAMAI ARUHITO HOTOKE NI NARUBEKI YOSHI TOKARETE SORO, YAMAI NI YORITE DOSHIN WA OKORI SORO NARI" " 

("MYOSHIN-AWA GOZEN GOHENJI", 

New Gosho Zenshu page 1963,
Gosho Zenshu page 1480) 

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