Saturday, May 28, 2022

Good advice grates on the ears 忠言逆耳

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

5月 29日
生命尊严,并非一个人能独自展现的。只有在如此互相关联的过程中,他人的生命方可显示其"无可替代"的尊贵一面,而当自身涌现无论如何都要维护到底的心态时,自己的生命也同时会变得尊贵庄严。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

May 29
The inherent dignity of life does not manifest in isolation. Rather, it is through our active engagement with others that their unique and irreplaceable nature becomes evident. At the same time, the determination to protect that dignity against all incursions adorns and brings forth the luster of our own lives.

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🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends!
🌈Have a blessed weekend ahead.
🙏 Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆‍♀️Together we encourage one other.

👋👋All of us undergo various sufferings in life.
🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️No human being is without worries and problems.
🙏😇That is why Buddhism, which teaches that earthly desires are enlightenment, is necessary for our lives. 💪💪We need to transform our karma.
🙏That is what Buddhism is for.
💪💪BE BRAVE! That is Nichiren Daishonin's cry to us all.

👋👋Today again don't be defeated
👋👋today again bring forth courage,
as you make your way on the path of your vow, on the path of victory.✌️✌️


📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.

💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️"Faith in the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin is sure to be accompanied by obstacles.
🛎Remember, it is at such times that you can take a great leap towards your happiness."


🙏Nichiren Daishonin ✍️:
🔥🪵"Doesn't a fire burn more briskly when logs are added?
💁🏻‍♂️Were it not for the flowing rivers, there would be no sea.''" (WND-1, 33)
🙏💪Just like these examples, practitioners of the Mystic Law grow stronger and more resilient with each obstacle they encounter.
👋👋Those who advance with such powerful energy and life force are history's victors, are winners in life.
🛎💪🇧🇪The important thing is for us to become strong and to make our organisation strong.
🙏The Daishonin cites the words:
🙏😇"The stronger one's faith, the greater the protection of the [Buddhist] gods."
(WND-1, 614)
💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️ It is an admonition, in one respect, to not depend on others.
🛎🛎This passage attests that we should abandon the indulgent tendency to assume that someone will naturally
come to our aid or take our side.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️It conveys the message that we ourselves need to become stronger, for only then can we activate the protective functions of the universe and win in life."

💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️"Do you give up the struggle to overcome your own limitations on the first attempt, or do you keep on with it, trying a second time, a third time, and continuing on in the challenge for the rest of
your life?
👋👋That is the only difference between the genius and the ordinary person.
✌️💪When all is said and done, winning over oneself personal triumph - is the only way forward."
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Today's Gosho: 796

"Sometimes I have been vilified by several hundred people; other times, besieged by several thousand, I have been attacked with swords and staves. I have been driven from my dwelling and ousted from my province. Finally, I twice incurred the wrath of the country's ruler and was exiled first to the province of Izu and then to the island of Sado. And when, with neither provisions to sustain my life nor even garments made of wisteria vine to cover my body, I was banished to Sado in the northern sea, the priests and lay believers of that province hated me even more than the men and women of Sagami Province did. Abandoned in the wilderness and exposed to the snow, I sustained my life by plucking grasses."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 596)
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Saturday, May 28th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us,
"Do not depend on others."*
The tendency to rely on others
can lead to moments of weakness
and cause carelessness.
By being strong and decisive,
let's stand up by ourselves!

*"And do not depend on others. You must simply make up your mind. Look at the world this year as a mirror. The reason that you have survived until now when so many have died was so that you would meet with this affair."
- "Reply to Yasaburō" (WND, Vol.1, page 829)

Saturday, May 28th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Bound as we common mortals are by earthly desires, we can instantly attain the same virtues as Shakyamuni Buddha, for we receive all the benefits that he accumulated. The sutra reads, 'Hoping to make all persons equal to me, without any distinction between us.'"

(Letter to the Sage Nichimyō
- WND, Vol. 1, page 323)
Selection Source:
Ikeda Sensei's guidance,
Seikyo Newspaper,
May 28th, 2022

Sunday, May 29th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The courage to refute the erroneous and reveal the true means denouncing falsehoods that confuse and mislead people and speaking out boldly for the truth.

"Our founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi used to say that we need to 'flush out devilish functions and vanquish them.' When the Daishonin speaks of what he did to 'expose the faults of his powerful enemies,' he is talking about flushing out such unseen negative forces."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating The World, [74] Expanding Our Gathering of Courageous Individuals Who Treasure the Dignity of Their Own and Others' Lives, Selfless Devotion and Championing the Truth, June 2021 issue of Daibyaku Renge -the Soka Gakkai study journal, translation released April 2022.
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5月29日
《徹底珍惜會員》
户田先生说过学会组织"比他的生命更重要"。
清澈的信心血脉只会在異體同心的崇高组织里流淌。同志之间要如敬佛一样互相尊敬、互相鼓励。
徹底珍惜"每一个人",定要使"每一个人"成为广布勇士。由此扩展为广布的"千波万浪"一一这就是学会荣誉的使命和光荣。
《勝利的人学》
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29th May. DAILY GOSHO

Dewdrops accumulate to form a stream, and streams accumulate to form the great ocean. Particles of dust accumulate to form a mountain, and mountains accumulate to form a Mt Sumeru. And in the same way, trifling matters accumulate to become grave ones. 🙏🏻

The Bodies and Minds of Ordinary Beings

5月29日,御书圣训:
献给您的每一天。

露 积 而 成 河,河 汇 而 成 大 海;尘 积 为 山,山 叠 而 为 须 弥 山 。小 事 累 而 为 大 事 。

《 众生身心书》(《随自意御书》)

滴水汇积成河,河渠集聚成大海;尘土堆积成山,小山集聚像须弥山般的大山,小事会成为大事 。 🙏🏻
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