Words of the Week Oct 30th-Nov 5th, Daily Gosho Oct 30th + Daily Encouragement Oct 31st

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

October 30th-November 5th, 2023
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
When we chant daimoku 

with the vow to achieve kosen-rufu,
boundless hope 

and great life force wells forth.

"Summoning up 

the courage of a lion king,"*
let's bravely charge forwards!
Let's all, every one of us, 

achieve victory and 

triumphantly celebrate 

the month of the founding 

of the Soka Gakkai together!

*"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone."

 - "On Persecutions Befalling the Sage" 

(WND, Vol.1, page 997)

Monday, October 30th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."

The Essential Passage in Each

 of the Twenty-eight Chapters

 of the Lotus Sutra - OTT, page 214
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Oct. 30th, 2023

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The world-renowned American microbiologist René Dubos (1901-82), with whom I engaged in dialogue, observed that 'the brain develops with use and wastes away with disuse.'*

"More than anything, your tireless efforts for the sake of Buddhism, the welfare of society, and the happiness of others, as you struggle and challenge yourselves to find the best way forwards, are destined to become a tremendous source of strength for you. In the end, they will benefit you as well as others."

14th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, Let' Create an Ever-Growing River of Capable People! Excerpts from Ikeda Sensei's speech at a ceremony in which representatives of Paraguay's National University of Itapua on April 29th, 2005  presented him with an honorary doctorate was shown at the Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting on July 9th, 2023, translation released October 2023 

* René Dubos, So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1998), p. 124.

-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
KOFU SEIGAN NO DAIMOKU NI
MUGEN NO KIBO TO DAISEIMEIRYOKU GA.
"ONO ONO SHISHIO NO KOKORO O
TORI IDASHITE" YUSHIN DA.
MINA GA KACHIDOKI NO SORITSU NO TSUKI O!

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

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSA NO SANJIN NENNEN NI OKORU NARI IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1099, 

Gosho Zenshu page 790

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