Saturday, October 14th, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Let us discuss the question at length."*
(By having meaningful conversations)
we can tie bonds between our hearts,
this is how the current
let's joyfully expand our friendships!
*"On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land"
(WND, Vol.1, page 7)
Saturday, October 14th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Tell them to be prepared for the worst, and not to expect good times, but take the bad times for granted."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Sunday, October 15th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"No one has read the Lotus Sutra with their life—put its teachings into practice—to the degree that the Daishonin did. In the course of his efforts to propagate the Mystic Law, he experienced life-threatening persecutions exactly like those the sutra describes, including being attacked with swords and staves (see LSOC13, 232) and banished again and again (see LSOC13, 234).* He proved the truth of the predictions of Shakyamuni and the Lotus Sutra. He put the two standards of 'Rely on the Law and not upon persons' and 'Rely on sutras that are complete and final and not on those that are not complete and final' into practice in his life with selfless commitment.
"We of the Soka Gakkai, united by the bonds of mentor and disciple, are carrying on the legacy of the Daishonin's lofty spirit and actions, with his writings as our foundation and guide. Drawing strength and inspiration from the Daishonin's words for our lives and efforts for kosen-rufu, we are actualising his prophecies of the global spread of the Mystic Law. In accord with his vision for the 'westward transmission of Buddhism,'** we are enacting the exciting drama of the inner transformation that is human revolution around the world."
The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [90] A Hope-Inspiring Life Philosophy for the Real World, The Daishonin Proved the Truth of the Lotus Sutra, October 2022 Daibyaku Renge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study journal, translation released August 2023.
* These two examples appear in the "Encouraging Devotion"' (13th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, describing the persecutions directed at practitioners of the Lotus Sutra. The first refers to violence perpetrated by arrogant lay people, and the second to banishment and exile instigated by arrogant false sages.
**Westward transmission of Buddhism: Also, westward return of Buddhism. Nichiren Daishonin predicted that his Buddhism of the Sun would flow from Japan towards the west, returning to the countries through which Buddhism had originally been transmitted and spreading throughout the entire world (see WND-1, 401).
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"SHIBASHIBA DANWA O ITASAN"
HITORI MATA HITORI TO KOKORO O MUSUBU.
SOKOKARA KOFU NO CHORYU GA!
OMOIDE O TSUKURI NAGARA
TANOSHIKU YUJO O HIROGEYO!
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--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
TADA ICHIEN NI OMOIKIRE YOKARAN WA FUSHIGI WARUKARAN WA ICHIJO TO OMOE
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