每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
8月 11日
我们的声音打动人心，改变社会，改变世界。从竭力发声开始踏出新的一步。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
August 11
Our voices have the power to move people's hearts and to change society and the world. New progress begins when we speak out.
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🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you. 🙆♀️Let's encourage one other.
👋👋True friendship implies a relationship where you empathize with your friends when they're suffering and encourage them not to lose heart,
👋👋and where they, in turn, empathize with you when you're in the same boat and try to cheer you up.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance
🛎🛎"Character and integrity are very
important.
💙🙏❤️A spirit of mutual respect and trust is a vital basis for real friendship.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️That said, there might naturally be times when you have arguments and disagreements with your friends.
👋👋But there should always be an underlying spirit of respect and consideration for each other, no matter how close you are.
💁🏻♂️💁🏻♀️In friendship, you mustn't think only
of yourself."
🙏📖Today's Gosho: 869
💁🏻♂️💁🏻♀️"Although the three inherent causes, or potentials, of the Buddha nature are possessed by all beings, if such beings do not encounter the right conditions by meeting a "good friend" or teacher, then they will not become awakened, they will not understand, their Buddha nature will not manifest itself.
🙏😇If they encounter the necessary conditions by meeting a good friend, however, then their Buddha nature will invariably become manifest.
🙇♀️🙇🙇♂️Hence such meetings are referred to as "conditions."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 861)
👥Good Friends Are a Rarity🫂
🙏🇧🇪"In Buddhism, good friends lead people to the correct teaching and guide them to develop their faith in and practice of this correct teaching.
💁🏻♂️Nichiren Daishonin says:
🙏😇"The best way to attain Buddhahood is to encounter a good friend.
🧐🧐How far can our own wisdom take us? If we have even enough wisdom to distinguish hot from cold, we should seek out a good friend.
🫂"But encountering a good friend is the hardest possible thing to do . . .
😵💫Moreover, in this evil latter age, evil companions are more numerous than the dust particles that comprise the land, while good friends are fewer than the specks of dirt one can pile on a fingernail" ("Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain," The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 598).
👋👋Such rare and good friends in faith not only refer to people, such as teachers in Buddhism and fellow Buddhist practitioners, but also refer to the correct teaching of Buddhism itself and the harmonious community of believers that provides support and direction in Buddhist practice.
🛎🛎Mentors are key, because they convey the correct teaching while demonstrating through their own example how to apply the ideals and philosophy of Buddhism amid the realities of daily life as they strive to lead countless people on the path to lasting happiness."
💙🙏❤️"Having good friends and advancing together with them is not half the Buddha way but all the Buddha way."
—Shakyamuni
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Burning with
fresh new determination,
let's challenge ourselves
to achieve new goals!
Our own
"improvement and accomplishments"
are certain to inspire our friends'
minds and spirits
and at the same time
encourage them to have courage.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Foolish men are likely to forget the promises they have made when the crucial moment comes."
(The Opening of the Eyes
- WND, Vol. 1, page 283)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Aug. 10th, 2022
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote: 'The bad man will harm the superior one, speaking with crooked discourses, and he will swear an oath upon them.'* The methods used by the ill-intentioned to discredit the just and good are still the same today."
The New Human Revolution—Vol. 28, Songs of Kosen-rufu 8, translation released July 2022
*Hesiod, Works and Days in Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia, edited and translated by Glenn W. Most (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006), p.103.
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🙏11th Aug Daily Guidance by Daisaku Ikeda: Don't make excuses; take responsibility for your own life and resolve to be victorious. If you allow yourself to be defeated, all the excuses in the world will get you nowhere. Defeat is defeat no matter how eloquently you may try to justify yourself. The important thing is to win where you are right now; to achieve victory without fail.
八月十一日，池田先生今日指导：
不要找借口，要持着认真的生活态度。如果轻易放弃，任何借口都无济于事。即使多么漂亮的借口，失败仍然是失败。因此，我们要＂在自己所处的环境中取胜，绝对取得胜利。"🙏
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Today's Gosho: 870
"In what lifetime could I ever forget what you have done for me? I will repay this debt of gratitude by serving you in the next lifetime.
Nam-myoho-renge-myo, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 536)
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