Saturday, July 30, 2022

Mission of bodhisattvas of the earth

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

7月 30日
你走过的地方就成了路。你谈过话,就播下希望的种子。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

July 30
The more you walk, the more you create a path. The more you talk, the more you plant seeds of hope.
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Good day Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆‍♀️Together let's encourage one other.

👋👋When one person is inspired to stand up in faith, it becomes the driving force for the advancement of kosenrufu.

📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

🥖🍞"If a person is hungry, we should give him bread to eat.
💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️When there is no bread, we can at least give words that nourish.
🙏💪To a person who looks ill or is physically frail, we can turn the conversation to some subject that will lift his spirit and fill him with hope and determination to get better."


💙🙏❤️"Compassion is the very soul of Buddhism.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️To pray for others, making their problems and anguish our own; to embrace those who are suffering, becoming their greatest ally; to continue giving them our support and encouragement until they become truly happy -
🇧🇪🙏 it is in such humanistic actions that Nichiren Buddhism lives and breathes."

📚The New Human Revolution Volume 9, chapter "Brilliant Light" pg 227-228

🇧🇪Ikeda Sensei ✍️

💙🙏❤️"The Daishonin's Buddhism consists of practising for oneself and others.
🙏📖📿Practice for oneself is doing gongyo, chanting daimoku, reading the Gosho, and studying Buddhist teachings,
👋👋while practice for others is sharing Buddhism with other people.

🛞🛞" These are like two wheels of a cart.
😇🙏When we engage in both of them, the path of Buddhahood opens before us.

💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️"In addition, in terms of the way we live our lives, to practise only for our own enlightenment is selfish.
😒To look silently on while those around us are unhappy and suffering is to lack compassion.
🙏😇Nichiren Daishonin said that we are the Bodhisattvas of the Earth and that we appeared in the world to lead all people of the Latter Day of the Law to genuine happiness.
👋👋"In other words, the Daishonin called on us to live our our lives working to bring happiness to both ourselves and
others, and peace and prosperity to society.
🇧🇪🙏This is the sign of a living religion. Shakyamuni spent his life spreading his
teachings throughout the land.
The Daishonin's life was also devoted to introducing Buddhism to others.
🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏻‍♂️Our mission, too, is to spread the correct Law."
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Friday, July 29th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Thank you" are words
that spread cheerful smiles
and bring hope.
Let's make a special effort
to share words of appreciation
with those that are close by
such as in our family,
neighbourhood and workplace!

Friday, July 29th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
If the spirit of many in body but one in mind prevails among the people, they will achieve all their goals, whereas if one in body but different in mind, they can achieve nothing remarkable.

(Many in Body, One in Mind
- WND-1, page 618)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, July 29th, 2022

Saturday, July 30th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Our members strive to realise the Buddha's intent, tap their Buddhahood to challenge and overcome difficulties and work to create an ever growing treasure land of hope and security, happiness and peace.

"Today, members everywhere are engaged in the noble task of elevating the life state of humanity by bringing forth their 'greater selves' — that is, their true power as Bodhisattvas of the Earth—and embracing their 'greater mission' – the great vow to realise kosen-rufu and the ideal of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land.'

"This is proof that they are 'casting off the transient and revealing the true' in their own lives, by living true to their vow and solidifying their unwavering resolve never to be defeated by any obstacle. As more and more people do so, spreading ripples of unsurpassed joy that will inspire and motivate others to strive alongside us, so will our movement for worldwide kosen-rufu develop and grow."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [77] Awakening to Our "Greater Self" and "Greater Mission," A Buddha in Inner Enlightenment, The Noble Task of Elevating the Life State of Humanity, September 2021 issue of Daibyaku-renge.
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Today's Gosho: 858

"Rice that nourishes the votary of the Lotus Sutra must be rice of the utmost compassion, because it benefits all living beings."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 1117)
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7月30日
信心是至高的勇气
我们要"勇气"十足地前进!
御书教导:"持心如师子王者,必得成佛。"(〈佐渡书〉,御书九九一页)
"师子王之心",就是指无惧任何事物的至高勇气。
人生充满挑战,所以要坚决地唱诵题目,确定自己的方向,毅然踏出勇气的一步。"师子王之心"绝不会败给烦恼,定能跨越过来。每当跨越这些考验,自己都会成长起来。
如果逃避考验,自己只会变得渺小。青年要大胆地、快活地将痛苦转为欢乐,将困难转为成长的食粮。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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池田大作先生指导:不读书的人,不光人要变得浅薄,也将被社会的前进步伐所抛弃。
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