每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
5月 31日
所谓伟业，是在没有称赞没有喝彩中默默地静静地实现的。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
May 31
Truly great achievements are carried out with quiet determination, without praise or acclamation.
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🌞Good morning ZH!
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together we encourage one other.
👋👋Making the writings of Nichiren Daishonin our foundation.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.
💁🏻♂️Speaking of the importance of philosophy, Mr Toda declared:
🤔Why do we need philosophy?
🤔Why do our lives need the Daishonin's Buddhism?
💁🏻♀️If it were enough to just do as we pleased, there'd be no need to go to school and study or have religious faith. 💁🏻♂️But if We follow that course, we'll only come to regret it later.
🙏📖On the other hand, by studying philosophy, by studying Buddhism, we gain access to the most profound depths of life.
💙😀❤️What incredible joy there if to be found in seeking and attaining with an open heart and deep emotion and inspiration - true and lasting nappiness!
💙😀❤️What an immeasurable delight it is to know the deeply wondrous nature of life and experience our own beings brimming with limitless joy!
💁🏻♂️He further stated:
🙏With the Gohonzon as our foundation, we of the Soka Gakkai are advancing towards the lofty goal of kosen-rufu.
🇧🇪And we are carrying out our practice based on studying the teachings of the world's greatest life philosophy, the quintessence of all Buddhist teachings.
🙏The karmic ties we share as fellow members, working together for kosen-rufu
with the Soka Gakkai, are profound indeed.
👋👋Mr Toda also said,
🙏🇧🇪"Closely examining human existence, Nichiren Buddhism solidly brings together the four viewpoints of self, life, society, and the universe.
✅ Read the Daishonin's writings more intently. Everything you need is written there.
✅If you make the Daishonin's writings your foundation, you will never be swayed by any problem.
✅If you base yourself on the supreme value of the Mystic Law, you'll always know how to proceed.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️If we look at things from the perspective of faith, the way forward will become clear to us.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️Do not be deceived by pretence or hypocrisy. The time of youth is one when we are easily swayed by our emotions and environment.
👋👋Establishing an unshakable foundation of Buddhist study in your lives while you are still young, therefore, is profoundly meaningful."
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May 30th-June 5th, 2022
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
"Clearly visible proof"* is eloquent.
Having pride in the fact
that we can indeed show proof
of the impact of our actions,let's get out and about
and talk to others
about our movement!The pillars of the people are here
(where we are).
*"In light of all this, it would seem that, when one who is able to show clearly visible proof in the present expounds the Lotus Sutra, there also will be persons who will believe."
- "Letter to Hōren"(WND, Vol.1, page 512)Monday, May 30th, 2022--- DAILY GOSHO ---"When your mind begins to work, your body moves."(Concerning the Statue
of Shakyamuni Buddha
Fashioned by Nichigen-nyo- WND, Vol. 2, page 811)Selection Source:
Soka Gakkai
President Harada's encouragement,
Seikyo Newspaper, May 30th, 2022Tuesday, May 31st, 2022---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----"Kosen-rufu means realising in our world today the beautiful realm created by the eternal Bodhisattvas of the Earth.... As we carry out our human revolution we are building in our local communities, networks of wonderful diversity, microcosms of world peace with everyone shines in their own unique way, just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms each display their unique kind of beauty."
The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating The World, [74] Expanding Our Gathering of Courageous Individuals Who Treasure the Dignity of Their Own and Others' Lives, Microcosms of World Peace, June 2021 issue of Daibyaku Renge -the Soka Gakkai study journal, translation released April 2022.
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5月31日
领导人是"勇敢奋斗的人"
领导人的别名是"勇敢奋斗的人"。他身上贯通强大的"精神电流"发放光彩。同时有着磁石般的一念力量，能吸引他人，振奋人心，把心和心连结在一起。
並不是靠策略或方法，认真承担责任的信心，会湧现出无限的智慧。
接受广宣流布的役职，投身于民众之中竭尽辛劳，能于三世永远作为伟大的领导人大展身手。这是佛法的因果法理。
《勝利的人學》
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《鷸蚌相爭》
内生論議，是鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利也。
一一覆兵衛志書其六（兄弟同心御書）、御書一一五二頁
【大意】
由於内部爭執對立，很可能會形成鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利的局面。
【詳解】
"鷸蚌相爭"是家喻户晓的故事。鷸啄蚌，蚌緊閉殼挾住鷸嘴不放，兩者相持不下，後来均為漁夫所捕。日蓮大聖人舉此例，期勉池上兄弟要團結起来，共同前進！
在桶狹間（現，愛知縣豐名市榮町）地方，與今川義元奋戰的織田信長，在關原（現，岐阜縣不破郡）地方，與石田三成激鬥的德川家康，本来都是居於劣勢，但由於軍隊圑結與紀律嚴明，最後终於獲得勝利。所以自古以来，團結的重要，常常為人稱道。
我们邁向廣宣流布，最重要的就是團結。如果互相反目成仇，互不理睬、感情用事而忘了大目標，就無法撃退横阻前途的三障四魔。
連百獸之王一一獅子，都會被身中之蟲吃得骨肉不剩。再堅固的城牆也會因城兵的叛亂而崩溃。護持妙法的圑體，最怕破和合僧的存在。
真正的團結，並不只是建築在感情或利害的一致。每個人在各自的崗位上充分發揮自己的個性、特質，同時更把信奉御本尊的心，祈願廣布的心結合為一，這樣才是真正的团結，也就是異體同心。
僅僅只是呼吸一致还是不够，唯有每個人加深達成廣布的决意，以及捨我其誰的责任感，才能建立起完整的妙法組織，邁向勝利之途。三月春花，新綠滿枝，我們應以清純之心，永遠團結，勇猛精進！
《今日發心》
（一）
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Today's Gosho: 798
"The sutras and treatises that have been brought from the western land of India to China and Japan run to more than five thousand or even seven thousand volumes. If one tries to use one's own judgment in deciding which of these various sutras and treatises are superior and which inferior, which profound and which shallow, which difficult and which easy, which early in date and which later, one will find that one is not up to the task. But if one tries to go by what other people say or what the various schools teach, one will be confused and led astray."
Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 481)
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Overcoming Impact of Pandemic and Climate Crises Crucial, Says Eminent Buddhist Preacher
Photo: SGI president Daisaku Ikeda. Credit: Seikyo Shimbun
Photo: SGI president Daisaku Ikeda. Credit: Seikyo Shimbun
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — 2022 marks seven years since the United Nations adopted 17 interlinked global goals, termed as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all" by 2030.
Looking closely at what has been achieved so far, eminent Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder and educator Daisaku Ikeda, who is also president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), says: "Progress toward the realization of the SDGs has been greatly hampered by the [COVID-19] pandemic."
In order to "restart and accelerate that progress", Dr Ikeda considers it "important to flesh out the core spirit of the SDGs—the determination to leave no one behind—by adding a further vision of building a society where all can savour the joys of being alive".
SDGs, also known as Global Goals, comprise an important part of Dr Ikeda's latest—and the 40th—peace proposal titled "Transforming Human History: The Light of Peace and Dignity", released on January 26.
The SGI president discusses from three different perspectives, what he sees as essential to overcoming not only the COVID-19 crisis but also the other challenges that confront our world, thus opening a new chapter in human history.
The first is to face head-on the issues the pandemic has exposed and reweave the social fabric so that it can support people's lives in the years and decades to come. "Now more than ever, we need to construct a society where people can confront and together overcome even the most severe challenges, a society in which the palpable sense that it is good to be alive, is shared by all," says Dr Ikeda.
His second perspective relates to creating a consciousness of solidarity that extends to the entire world.
The SGI president finds that the global pandemic measures should focus on how governments can work together to overcome the COVID-19 threat—not on how each individual state can escape the crisis. "The G7 countries should lead efforts to negotiate a pandemic treaty that will establish international protocols for responding to future pandemics, and proactively develop the frameworks of international cooperation that can serve as a basis for such a treaty," adds Dr Ikeda.
The third perspective refers to economy: he calls for "an economy that inspires hope in young people and enables women to shine with dignity".
The SGI president further pleads for looking for ways to eliminate gross disparities in impact of and recovery from the pandemic, and refers in this context to a lecture given by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July 2020, some four months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
Speaking at an event celebrating the birth anniversary of the late South African president Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), whose life was dedicated to the causes of human rights and social justice, the Secretary-General focused his analysis not on the dangers and threats posed by the pandemic but on the people who are actually impacted. He noted that the virus poses the greatest risk to the most marginalized, including those living in poverty, older people and people with disabilities and pre-existing conditions.
Describing how COVID-19 can be "likened to an x-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built," the UN chief called for the development of a new social contract for a new era.
He cited the following words President Mandela addressed to the people of South Africa, which offer a direction for the realization of that vision: "One of the challenges of our time . . . is to re-instil in the consciousness of our people that sense of human solidarity, of being in the world for one another and because of and through others."
Dr Ikeda stresses the importance of climate change. "With every passing year, the damage caused by extreme weather events has intensified and become more widespread," he says. During COP26, the US and China agreed to strengthen measures for cooperation on climate action. And "strongly" urges Japan and China to reach a similar agreement.
He also calls for strengthening the framework of partnership between the UN and civil society and propose the establishment of a venue within the UN where civil society, led by youth, can freely discuss the comprehensive protection of the "global commons", the resources required in order to survive and flourish. "A UN youth council would be a perfect vehicle for this," he adds.
On environmental issues, the SGI president calls for more coordinated efforts in implementing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Convention on Biological Diversity and Convention to Combat Desertification, stating: "Climate change, biodiversity and desertification are deeply intertwined, and solutions are likewise interconnected."
Concerned about the impact of disruptions to education, the SGI president suggests that the UN Transforming Education Summit planned for September focus on education in emergencies, inclusive education and learning for global citizenship.
Dr Ikeda is convinced that nuclear weapons abolition is the key to a sustainable global future. "The first step is to find a way of 'detoxifying' ourselves from current nuclear-dependent security doctrines."
As regards the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), Dr Ikeda "strongly" calls both for Japan and other nuclear-dependent states and for the nuclear-weapon states to participate as observers in the first meeting of states parties to the TPNW when it is held.
Japan will host the G7 Summit in 2023. The SGI president proposes that a high-level meeting on reducing the role of nuclear weapons be held concurrently in Hiroshima, in which the leaders of non-G7 countries could also participate. [IDN-InDepthNews – 01 April 2022]
Photo: SGI president Daisaku Ikeda. Credit: Seikyo Shimbun
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