Friday, June 16, 2023

Benefit of the fiftieth (50th) person

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

5月 28日
事实上,为他人的幸福投注心力是使自己真正幸福的必要条件。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

May 28
The truth is that devoting ourselves to others' happiness is actually a necessary condition for becoming genuinely happy ourselves.
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Saturday, May 27th, 2023
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's make sure to express
our deepest respect and appreciation
to all of those
who dedicate themselves
to the growth and smiles
of our Future Division members,
the successors of kosen-rufu!
There is no doubt that
your noble efforts to raise
and develop the next generation
will bring immeasurable
good fortune and benefits
to shine in your lives.

Saturday, May 27th, 2023
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In the case of this sutra, the benefits gained from it increase in depth and bounty, and they continue down to the fiftieth person who hears of it. In the case of the other sutras, however, there is no benefit to be gained even by the first person who hears them, much less by the second, third, or fourth person, and so on down to the fiftieth person. Though rivers may be deep, their depth cannot match even the shallow places of the ocean."

(The Essence of
the "Medicine King" Chapter
- WND, Vol. 1, page 92)
Selection Source:
Ikeda Sensei's guidance,
Seikyo Newspaper, May 27th, 2023

Sunday, May 28th, 2023
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When we make our lives shine with wisdom and compassion and help others do the same, the light of happiness of the true joy of living emanating from our lives will illuminate the gloom and uncertainty shrouding our times.


Editorial May/June, Sending Forth a Refreshing Breeze of Encouragement, SGI Newsletter No. 11246, May 2023 Daibyakurenge, translation released April 17th, 2023.
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Today's Gosho: 1151

"Even an ignorant person can obtain blessings by serving someone who expounds the Lotus Sutra. No matter if he is a demon or an animal, if someone proclaims even a single verse or phrase of the Lotus Sutra, you must respect him as you would the Buddha."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 757)
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【幸福的源泉】

《見寶塔品》中談到虛空會儀式。在這說法中,佛發放出「光明」和「妙香」,而這光輝與薰風傳遍十方的國土,會心生感激,滿溢難以抑制的喜悅。經文把眾人遇到佛的大慈大悲的薰風而蘇生的樣相,譬如為「如大風吹小樹枝」。

也就是說,「大風」就是喚起民眾隨喜之心的正法正義之威光勢力的表現。大聖人總結地說,把所有民眾以歡喜和幸福包容起來的「大風」,就是南無妙法蓮華經的題目。

《御義口傳》云「現在日蓮及門下弟子唱奉南無妙法蓮華經 就如大風吹一樣。(中御二 . 180頁)。

這金句宣說題目擁有如大風般的力量,不但能使自己生命強盛起來,也可以改變眾人的生命。這是大聖人就《法華經》< 見寶塔品第十一 >的「譬如大風,吹小樹枝」一文的口傳講義。

大聖人指出,此經文的「譬如大風」就是「題目的五字」,吹小樹枝」就是「折伏門」。

朗朗地唱誦題目,勇敢地傾訴佛法的正義,儼然破折邪義,在友人的生命中吹刮起歡喜的旋風。

我們唱誦的題目,有「生存的力量」,有「幸福的源泉」,是「爭取勝利的原力」。題目的音律,吻合大宇宙的旋律,有著能從根底變革自他生命的偉大力用。
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御書與師弟(上)第168-169頁。
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