每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
6月 4日
为了共同完成大事业，大家都要下决心自己负起全部责任，要独自挺立。同时，不是要自己上前台来，而是为大家尽力，在背后支撑。这就是团结的要谛。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
June 4
In order to achieve something great together, each person should resolve to take full responsibility and stand up to take action. At the same time, instead of seeking the limelight, it's important to support others behind the scenes and to give your all. That's the secret to true unity.
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🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends !
🐲🚣♀️🍙Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together we encourage one other.
👋👋Chanting Daimoku is the primary practice for oneself.
👋👋Doing both the primary (Daimoku) and supporting practices ( Gongyo)each morning and evening gives rise to maximum joy and benefit in our lives.
👋👋Nichiren Daishonin did not give specific instructions on the format for the sutra recitation.
👋👋But he did recommend reciting the
🪷"Expedient Means" (second) and
🪷 "Life Span of the Thus Come One" (sixteenth) chapters of the Lotus Sutra, which, he taught, are the heart of all Buddhist teachings.
🪷From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Page 71
📖Gosho The Recitation of the 🪷"Expedient Means" and 🪷"Life Span" Chapters
Written to Hiki Daigaku Saburo Yoshimoto's wife on April 17, 1264
🙏Nichiren Daishonin ✍️
🙏🪷"As I said before, though no chapter of the Lotus Sutra is negligible, among the entire twenty-eight chapters, the 🪷"Expedient Means" chapter and the 🪷"Life Span" chapter are particularly outstanding.
👉The remaining chapters are all in a sense the branches and leaves of these two chapters.
💁🏻♂️💁🏻♀️Therefore, for your regular recitation, I recommend that you practice reading the prose sections of the 🪷"Expedient Means" and🪷 "Life Span" chapters."
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.
🙏🪷Primary Practice and Supporting Practice🙏🪷
🌗"Our morning and evening practice of gongyo is a central pillar of our efforts to transform our lives.
🙏📿📖In gongyo, we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with faith in the Gohonzon and recite excerpts portions of the Lotus Sutra—an extract from the
🪷"Expedient Means" (2nd) chapter and the verse section of the 🪷"Life Span" (16th) chapter.
💁🏻♂️Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with faith in the Gohonzon is fundamental; it is therefore called the "primary practice."
💁🏻♀️Reciting the🪷"Expedient Means" and 🪷"Life Span" chapters helps bring forth the benefit of the primary practice; it is therefore called the supporting practice.
🙏😇The reason we recite the
🪷"Expedient Means" and🪷"Life Span" chapters is that these are the two most important chapters of the Lotus Sutra, which opens the way to enlightenment for all people.
👉The🪷 "Expedient Means" chapter explains the true aspect of all phenomena, the central doctrine of the theoretical teaching, or first fourteen chapters, of the Lotus Sutra.
👉👉The 🪷"Life Span" chapter reveals the Buddha's attainment of enlightenment in the remote past, the central doctrine of the essential teaching, or latter fourteen chapters, of the sutra.
🙏✍️The Daishonin writes, "If you recite the🪷 'Life Span' and🪷 'Expedient Means' chapters, then the remaining chapters will naturally be included even though you do not recite them" (WND-1, 71).
💁Explaining the relationship between the primary practice and supporting practice, Nichikan, compared them to food and seasoning, respectively.
🍙🍜He compared it to how, when eating rice or noodles, the primary source of nourishment, seasonings such as salt or vinegar are used to enhance, or supplement, the flavor.
🙏📿In similar fashion, reciting the
🪷"Expedient Means" and🪷 "Life Span" chapters, he said, helps bring forth the profound benefit of the primary practice of chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is why it is called the supporting practice.
🙏🪷🙏In reciting the🪷 "Expedient Means" and🪷 "Life Span" chapters, then, we praise and enhance the beneficial power of the Gohonzon."
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👑 Friday, June 3rd, 2022👑
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Passion is a necessity for happiness.
Burning with passion along with
hopes snd dreams for kosen-rufu,
let's make dynamic progress
each and every day!
A hero who courageously devotes their life
to their mission
is actual proof of human revolution!
👑Friday, June 3rd, 2022👑
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
Though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered.
(On Prayer - WND-1, page 345)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, June 3rd, 2022
👑Saturday, June 4th, 2022👑
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Our belief in each person's inherent Buddha nature spurs us to give our all to encouraging others and engaging in dialogue to promote understanding and fellowship.
"The key is first to talk with those around us and chant to find ways to help them. Genuine communication fosters mutual trust and cooperation. Let's always move forwards together in our shared struggle, 'transcending all differences among ourselves' (cf.WND–1, 217). There is no organisation like the Soka Gakkai in its dedication to worldwide kosen-rufu."
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, Respecting Each Other as Buddhas, June 2021 issue of Daibyaku Renge -the Soka Gakkai study journal, translation released April 2022.
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Today's Gosho: 802
"We, the various beings who live in this world, have been the beloved children of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, since numberless major world system dust particles kalpas in the past. And though because of the offense of our unfilial behavior we are unaware of this to this day, we are nevertheless not the same as the beings of another realm."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 484)
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Today's Gosho: 802
"We, the various beings who live in this world, have been the beloved children of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, since numberless major world system dust particles kalpas in the past. And though because of the offense of our unfilial behavior we are unaware of this to this day, we are nevertheless not the same as the beings of another realm."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 484)
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6月4日
增加"民众力量"
日莲大聖人一语道破接连不断的战乱和让民众陷于苦恼的乱世本质；"当今世乱，民力不丰。"（〈众生身心书），御書一六八三页）
要消灭战争，唯有让民众变得坚强，变得贤明，还有就是要牢牢的聊结世界民众的心。
因此青年啊，要广结良友，大家和睦相处，加强团结！要秉持正确的哲学，成为敏锐和聪明的人！要一边勇敢的挑战眼前问题，一边坚忍不拔地挑战自己的"人间革命"！
为了自己与朋友的幸福、为了社会与国土的繁荣、为了地球的和平，要不断祈求、学习、对话、行动、奋斗，胜利前进下去。
《勝利的人學》
池田大作
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