每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
7月 20日
发现意义，自觉意义，由此开始价值创造。从中心灵也会变得坚强和丰裕。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
July 20
When we discover and awaken to the significance of our circumstances, we are able to create value from them. That is also what engenders a strong, resourceful spirit.
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Good Afternoon Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together let's encourage one other.
👋👋 When we believe in the Gohonzon and apply ourselves to chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo both for ourselves and for others, the world of Buddhahood emerges within our lives like the sun, dispelling our karmic impediments just as the warm morning sunlight evaporates frost or dew.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance
💁🏻♂️🇧🇪"President Ikeda stresses the
importance of changing the way we see sufferings and taking the stance of "transforming karma into mission.
🇧🇪💁🏻♂️SGI President Ikeda expresses this process as "changing karma into mission" and explains:
👋👋 "We all have our own karma or destiny, but when we look it square in the face and grasp its true significance, then any hardship can serve to help us lead richer and more profound lives.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️Our actions in challenging our destiny become examples and inspirations for countless others.
🙏🙏"In other words, when we change our karma into mission, we transform our destiny from playing a negative role to a positive one.
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♂️Those who change their karma into their mission have 'voluntarily assumed the appropriate karma.'
👋👋Therefore, those who keep advancing, while regarding everything as part of their mission, proceed toward the goal of transforming their destiny"
🇧🇪Second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda said: "If we were too perfect to begin with, others would find it hard to relate to us.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️That's why we specifically chose to be born as ordinary people, experiencing sickness and poverty, so that we could widely spread Buddhism in society….
👋👋 LIFE IS LIKE PLAYING A PART IN A DRAMA."
☝️☝️☝️He often gave guidance in
this vein.
💁🏻♂️He also said: "I lost my wife and also my daughter. My businesses failed.
🙏Because I have known such sufferings,
I was able to become the president of the Soka Gakkai."
🛎🛎Those who haven't experienced hardships and sufferings can't be expected to understand others' feelings.
🛎🛎Only those who have gone through painful struggles and trials can truly help others.
🛎🛎🛎TO SIMPLY REGARD ALL OF OUR SUFFERINGS AS KARMA IS PASSIVE AND DEFEATIST.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️Instead, we should view them as sufferings we have voluntarily taken on as part of our mission, and which we have vowed to overcome through our Buddhist
practice.
🙏🙏The principle of "voluntarily assuming the appropriate karma"
✅teaches this fundamental transformation of attitude, or mind-set. ✅We can definitely transform our
karma into our mission.
🙏💪Since all our problems and struggles are expressions of our own vow, there is no way that we will not be able to surmount them.
👋👋We [as Bodhisattvas of the Earth] are born among those suffering the most.
👋👋The Buddha resides among those who are suffering the most.
🙏😇Buddhism exists to enable those suffering the most to attain the greatest happiness.
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2022-- TO MY FRIENDS --
This is the faith and practice
which enables us to transform
every aspect of our lives
in the direction of happiness.
Let's change our karma
into our mission!
And hardships into a means
to bring forth
the power to move forwards!
Let's constantly advance with
indomitable optimism!
Tuesday, July 19th, 2022--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"as for the matter of becoming a Buddha, ordinary people keep in mind the words 'earnest resolve' and thereby become Buddhas."
("The Gift of Rice",
WND-l page 1125)
Selection Source: Myoji no Gen
Seikyo Newspaper: July 19th, 2022
Wednesday, Month Date, 2022---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin stresses that nothing is more important than realising that we ourselves are the treasure tower and the treasure tower is none other than ourselves. There is no greater wisdom, he is saying, than awakening to the true reality of our lives and the Mystic Law that governs all life and the universe.
"Just before he died, Shakyamuni urged his disciples to 'be a lamp unto themselves and a refuge unto themselves, [to] betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp and holding fast as their refuge to the Truth, [to] look not for refuge to any one besides themselves.'*
"Buddhism likened this world to a raging torrent. What can be done to relieve the sufferings of people tossed about by these turbulent currents? The Buddha here stresses the importance of each person forging a solid self by making the unshakeable Law their anchor."
The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [76] To Our Future Division Members, the Torchbearers of Justice—Our Hope for the Future, "On the Treasure Tower"—We Are Each the Treasure Tower, August 2021 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released June 2022
* "Maha Parinibbana Suttanta," in Dialogues of the Buddha, part 2, translated by T.W. and C.A.F. Rhys Davids (Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1995), p.p. 108-109.
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7月20日
从倾听开始
与他人对话最重要的是"耐心倾听"。
"倾听"等于"学习"，单是倾听他人的话也能增广见闻。只要尊敬对方，以诚相待，自然能开怀畅谈。
对话就是为了增进彼此的理解与友情。
就如古代哲人所说一样，人有两只耳朵就是为了以讲话的两倍时间去倾听。
有时候光是得到别人倾听，烦恼就能消解；或者在倾听途中会找到解决的方法。对话具有不可思议的力量，能够令双方升华至更高的境界。
因此"热心的倾听"就会成为巨大的"鼓励"。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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