Sunday, November 17th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"A fire burns higher when logs are added, and a strong wind makes a kālakula grow larger. The pine tree lives for ten thousand years, and therefore its boughs become bent and twisted. The votary of the Lotus Sutra is like the fire and the kālakula, while his persecutions are like the logs and the wind. The votary of the Lotus Sutra is the Thus Come One whose life span is immeasurable; no wonder his practice is hindered, just as the pine tree's branches are bent or broken. From now on, always remember the words 'This sutra is hard to uphold.'"
(The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith
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Monday, November 18th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"When Winston Churchill took office as prime minister, he issued this stirring declaration in a speech that became famous around the world: 'You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory.''* With that unwavering aim, he fought on, convinced of final victory. He is renowned for always flashing the 'V for victory' sign to inspire people.
"At the time, Hitler's madness was wreaking havoc and destruction all over Europe. Britain was in grave peril.
"But Churchill greeted news of the worsening war situation as an exhilarating challenge. The grimmer the prospects, the more he roused his fighting spirit and calmly exercised leadership. 'The moment has come to prove my strength!' 'The greater the challenge, the more satisfying the struggle!' —that was his spirit.
"The world looking on thought that Britain had reached the end of the line, but Churchill called out in a speech to the House of Commons, which was later broadcast to the nation: 'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'**
"'Let us fight so that people a thousand years from now will hail our triumphant struggle as our finest hour!' Churchill declares.
"Let us of the Soka Gakkai, too, advance with the conviction that our present struggle will be 'our finest hour for ten thousand years to come.'"
40th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, Create Great Triumphant Drama of Life! January 22nd 2019 issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released February 2019
* Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume II: Never Surrender, May 1940-December 1940 (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995), p. 22.
** Ibid., p. 368.
HI NI TAKIGI O KUWAURU TOKIWA SAKAN NARI OKAZE FUKEBA GURA WA BAIZO SURU NARI MATSU WA BAIZO SURU NARI MATSU WA MANNEN NO YOWAI O TAMOTSU YUENI EDA O MAGERARU HOKEKYO NO GYOJA WA HI TO GURA TONO GOTOSHI TAKIGI TO KAZE TOWA DAINAN NO GOTOSHI HOKEKYO NO GYOJA WA KUON CHOJU NO NYORAI NARI SHUGYO NO EDA O KIRARE MAGERAREN KOTO UTAGAI NAKARU BESHI KORE YORI NOCHIWA SHIKYO NANJI NO YOJI O ZANJI MO WASUREZU ANJI TAMO BESHI
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