每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
4月 19日
真正的友情对话超越民族、国境，超越利害，超越所有分裂的壁垒。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
April 19
Genuine dialogue, rooted in sincere friendship, has the power to overcome differences in ethnicity, to transcend borders and interests, to bring down the walls of division.
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🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends!
🙏 Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together we encourage one other.
👋👋In the power of faith !
👋👋Let us continue to advance forever with " Faith based on the Gohonzon," striving to carry on the Daishonin's spirit, based on the Gosho and on chanting Nam Myoho Renge kyo.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.
💙🙏❤️Nichiren Daishonin highlighted on the importance of pure hearted faith:
"As a child refuses to leave its mother" (WND-1, 1036).
👩🏻🍼Certainly, an infant is entirely dependent on its mother, trusting utterly in her love.
👉The Daishonin uses this example to illustrate the primary importance of faith. 🛎Our lives, in a sense, start with placing our trust or faith in this world around us.
🇧🇪Ikeda Sensei ✍️
🇺🇸"The American journalist Norman Cousins (1915-90), with whom I engaged in a dialogue, was extremely interested in the power of faith or belief.
💁🏻♂️Beginning with his own experience of overcoming serious illness, he offers many
documented examples demonstrating the
power of positive belief in the healing process.
✍️As he wrote: "Nothing is more wondrous about the fifteen billion neurons in the human brain than their ability to convert thoughts, hopes, ideas, and attitudes into chemical substances.
🛎🛎Everything begins, therefore, with belief.
👤🙏💪WHAT WE BELIEVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL OPTION OF ALL."
✅Everything begins with our prayer.🙏
🪆"The great Russian author Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) also stressed the amazing
power of faith.
👉 A character in one of his novels declares:
🫵"A battle is won by the side that has firmly resolved to win and
🛎 "One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy."
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️Faith is the indispensable foundation of human existence and the path of our lives is DECIDED BY HOW STRONG OR WEAK OUR FAITH IS.
🛎🙏The Gohonzon Exists Within Us.
🛎🙏Fervent faith that continues to sincerely seek and embrace the Gohonzon is essential in order to savor such great benefit.
🛎🙏Bringing forth through courage to face difficult realities head on,
✅the wisdom to surmount the obstacles arising from within and from without,
✅and the powerful life force to make new strides forward.
🛎🙏Sufferings that aid one's personal transformation and growth, a springboard to great development."
😇🌟✨ 🌟 Illuminated by the five characters of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the noble state of life that is one with the Mystic Law functions vibrantly even in the world of hell.
👉The meaning of the sufferings of hell is thereby turned around completely.
💁🏻♂️While in prison, the founding Soka Gakkai president,
🇧🇪Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Sensei ✍️"CONCENTRATING INTENTLY ON MY FAITH IS MY WORK RIGHT NOW.
IF I CAN DO THAT, I AM NOT THE LEAST BIT ANXIOUS.
🙇🙇♂️🙇♀️Depending on one's frame of mind, even hell can be enjoyable.
💁🏻♂️Mr. Toda also said that if we base ourselves on the Gohonzon, we can gain a state of being in which we are filled with boundless joy wherever we go.
👋👋Every person's life is an entity that inherently embodies the principles of the mutual possession of the Ten Worlds and the three thousand realms in a single moment of life.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️In essence, every person's life is perfect and complete there is nothing extraneous to be subtracted and nothing lacking that needs to be added.
🙏No existence is without its joys and
sorrows, its ups and downs.
💁🏻♀️💁💁🏻♂️And no matter how we might try, we cannot avoid the universal sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death."
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April 18th-24th, 2022
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
The Daishonin asserts,
"Nothing is more certain
than actual proof."*The Seikyo Newspaper
and all our other SGI publications,where people's
personal experiences in faith
are vibrantly introduced,
are the source of light
that give people hope and courage.Let's try to encourage
as many people as possiblewith words brimming with humanism
and life forceand help them to form
a connection with Buddhism!
*"The Teaching, Practice, and Proof" (WND, Vol.1, page
Monday, April 18th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, 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, Vol. 1, page 345)Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Seikyo Newspaper, April 18th, 2022
Tuesday, April 19th, 2029
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When we open the Daishonin's writing, we connect with the Daishonin's resounding lion's roar, which vanguishes the devilish functions causing distress and torment. When we turn the pages, we hear the heartbeat of the Daishonin's deep compassion to embrace and guide young people who seek the correct way to live. When we read them, we awaken to and gain trust in the colossal potential within each human being that is as vast as the universe itself.
"We realise how strong, profound and great each person can become. We experience how warm and beautiful true life-to-life connections can be. We discover how vibrantly we can enlighten and enrich our societies and countries so that they truly thrive."
Foreword to the New Japanese edition of Nichiren Daishonin's gosho zenshu (The Complete Works of Nichiren Daishonin). From the November 20th, 2021 edition of Seikyo Newspaper, translation released April 2022.
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4月19日 人生要勇敢地承受劳苦，与朋友同甘共苦，为众人、为社会服务。经受的劳苦愈多，开拓的境界也愈大。 一一 池田大作
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19th Apr. Daily Guidance By Daisaku Ikeda:
A strong, deep conviction is the fundamental source of the strength needed for life. A person with conviction has no complaints. He has hopes. He is always cheerful. And he gives hope to others as well. His life unfolds fully and expansively. 🙏🏻
4月19日，池田先生今日指导：
既强且深的 "确信" , 才是生存下去的根本力量 ! 确信之人不埋怨，也不诉苦； 有希望，始终开朗，更能不断给人带来希望，宽阔地打开人生 。 🙏🏻
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19th Apr. DAILY GOSHO
[The devil king] knows that those who hear even a single sentence or phrase of the Lotus Sutra will attain Buddhahood without fail and, exceedingly distressed by this, contrives various plots and restrains and persecutes believers in an attempt to make them abandon their faith. 🙏🏻
The Four Debts of Gratitude
4月19日，御书圣训：
献给您的每一天。
但 耳 闻 法 华 经 一 文 一 句，亦 必 成 佛 一 事，第 六 天 魔 王 此 叹 最 甚，故 千 方 百 计 留 难，谋 使 人 放 弃 信 经 之 心 。
《四恩抄》
心想法华经虽然是一文一句，只要是听闻就已经能够成佛，至令第六天魔王也叹息，所以用尽各种手段，加以留难，企图令人舍弃相信法华经的心 。 🙏🏻
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Today's Gosho: 756
"When we look from time to time at a person's face, we find him or her sometimes joyful, sometimes enraged, and sometimes calm. At times greed appears in the person's face, at times foolishness, and at times perversity. Rage is the world of hell, greed is that of hungry spirits, foolishness is that of animals, perversity is that of asuras, joy is that of heaven, and calmness is that of human beings. These worlds, the six paths, are all present in the physical appearance of the person's face. The remaining four noble worlds are hidden and dormant and do not appear in the face, but if we search carefully, we can tell that they are there."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 358)
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