每日箴言
池田大作出版著作
5月 7日
一分一秒不松懈，认真地不断行动，将创造出光荣的历史。一步一步的步伐即使小，积累下去就是大前进。
Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's
May 7
The way to build a glorious record of success is to continue to work with dedication, not wasting a moment. Though each individual step may be small, when accumulated they form a great advance.
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5️⃣ ➖5️⃣➖2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣
🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends !
🙏 Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together we encourage one other.
👋👋We,Bodhisattvas of the Earth, are carrying on this noble Soka tradition.
🫵🫵Each of us has a mission to help others become happy within the organization and in society at large.
💙🫶🏻❤️Each of us are precious heirs of the Soka legacy.
🤲🌱🪴Sowing the seeds of happiness and peace in our world.
🌼🌸🌻Human flowers will bloom.
🙏🪷📖"The Parable of the Medicinal
Herbs" (5th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, we find the beautiful expression
"human flowers" (LSOC5, p. 142).
🙏😇Teaches that the great blessings or benefits of the Mystic Law nourish and cause the life state of Buddhahood to blossom in "living beings of countless thousands, ten thousands, millions of species"(LSOC5, p. 135),
🌧🪴🌳equally and without distinction, just as life-giving rain falls impartially on all plants and trees.
🛎🌏This principle of the Mystic Law
lights the way for realising respect for
diversity and peaceful coexistence,
Which the world so desperately needs.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.
🙏Nichiren Daishoin ✍️
"This self has from the beginning been in possession of one's own realm of Buddhahood and of the realms of
Buddhahood possessed by all other
living beings." (WND-2, p. 62)
💙😇❤️In other words, we contain within us not only our own world of Buddhahood but also that of all others.
👋👋The life of each one of us is infinitely
scale, respect Worthy and vast in connected to the Buddha nature of all
other people, of all humanity, and of
the entire universe.
🇧🇪The Soka Gakkai's grand vision of bringing humankind together as one global family is based on this profound, unwavering view of life.
🙏📿💪That is why, whatever the circumstances, we refuse to give in to defeat or despair and keep chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for our own and others' happiness.
💁🏻♀️💁💁🏻♂️We tirelessly engage in dialogue to share the life-affirming principles of Nichiren Buddhism,
💙🤝❤️So as to call forth and unite people's Buddha nature with the aim of building a world of peace and happiness for all.
👋👋NO ONE REMAINS UNCHANGED BY THE COMPASSIONATE RAIN OF THE MYSTIC LAW.
👉👉Even when someone responds to our efforts negatively, it can be taken as
a sign that the seeds of Buddhahood
we have sown will someday sprout and
produce flowers of happiness in their
life.
🙏Today, the rich earth of respect
and trust cultivated through the sweat
and tears of our noble champions of
kosen-rufu spans the globe, and new
Bodhisattvas of the Earth are emerging
and blossoming confidently as
"human flowers".
🙏The Daishonin✍️:
🙇🙇♂️🙇♀️"If the mind of faith is perfect, then the water of wisdom, the great impartial wisdom, will never dry up."
(WND-1, p. 1015)
🇧🇪Ikeda Sensei's encouragement:
❤️💗💓❤️"With the big, open hearts of the wise, let's keep striving in dialogue to
richly nourish the lives of others!"
🙏🪷With deep pride in sowing the seeds of Buddhahood,
🗣speak to others with all your heart in the spirit of "Still I am not discouraged,
🙏believing that tomorrow's "human
flowers" will bloom.🪷
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🌞Good afternoon Myo Ho friends !
🙏 Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆♀️Together we encourage one other.
👋👋Becoming a Buddha is nothing extraordinary.
🙏🪷A Buddha is nothing other than life itself.
😇A Buddha advancing along the path of absolute happiness.
📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's
guidances.
🙏😇"Becoming a Buddha is nothing extraordinary.
🙏📿❤️If you chant Nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo with your whole heart, you will naturally become endowed with the Buddha's thirty-two features and eighty
characteristics." (WND, p 1030)
💁🏻♂️💁🏻♀️"Becoming a Buddha is nothing extraordinary."
🙏Nichiren Daishonin is teaching us that ordinary people can actually become a Buddha.
👉If this is so, a Buddha is certainly not some supernatural being. "
🤩🤩🤩This gives me hope; it gives meaning to my existence.
🤔Now the question is, what is a Buddha?
At that point in time, the only Buddha we knew was Shakyamuni Buddha - a
"supreme" being
🤔- and how can an ordinary person like us become a Buddha?
🤔And what does attaining Buddhahood mean?
🤓It is only through my study and practice of Nichiren Buddhism that I learnt that attaining Buddhahood does not mean that one fine day, we suddenly turn into a Buddha or become magically enlightened.
🙏😇"Attaining Buddhahood means
✅✅✅TO SECURE AN ENTRY TO THE PATH, OR ORBIT, OF BUDDHAHOOD .
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️Instead of a final, static destination at which we arrive and remain, achieving enlightenment means we are firmly establishing faith needed to keep us advancing along the path of absolute
happiness.
👋👋For example, the glory we enjoy in a dream vanishes without a trace the moment we wake up.
👋👋When an illusion disappears, nothing is left of its joy - only a sense of emptiness that one feels sobering from a state of drunkenness.
😇👍The joy of Buddhahood, however, is profound, indestructible and everlasting."
🤔The next thing to ponder is how does a
common mortal become a Buddha?
💁🏻♂️The Daishonin says in this passage,
🙏📿❤️"'If you chant Nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo with your whole heart."
👋👋To chant with our whole heart means we must totally believe in the power of the Mystic Law.
👋👋We must also totally believe that We can attain Buddhahood in this lifetime.
👋👋As We continue our practice, We began to realize that to have faith is the key factor.
👉👉This is because if We do not believe, nothing will ever happen.
🛎🛎THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE, AND EVERYTHING IS GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
🛎🛎If We do not believe, We will not act; and if there is no action (cause), then no
reaction (effect) will take place.
🙏✅This is what Buddhism teaches.
👋👋As we find in the Buddhist scriptures,
💁🏻♂️ "If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present.
💁🏻♀️And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present" (WND, p.279).
This is not describing a linear progression of cause and effect. Rather, it indicates that everything is contained within the present instant.
🤔What kinds of causes am I making right now?" "What actions am I taking?" The answers to these questions are what will determine our future.
🙏💁🏻♂️Even if Nichiren Daishonin affirms that we can all become Buddhas, if we do not believe and if we do not chant the daimoku, then of course we will continue to remain a common mortal.
✅📖It was this passage that convinced me to believe that a person can indeed become a Buddha.
📖 🙏 It reads:
🥚 "A bird's egg contains nothing but liquid,
🐣yet by itself this develops into a beak, two eyes,
🐥and all the other parts,
🦅and the bird soars into
the sky.
🙇🙇♂️🙇♀️We, too, are the eggs of ignorance, which are pitiful things, but when nurtured by the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is like the warmth of the mother bird, we develop the
beak of the thirty-two features and the feathers of the eighty characteristics and are free to soar into the sky of the true aspect of all phenomena and the reality of all things.' (WND, p 1030)🙏🪷
🤗It is truly awe-inspiring to see how an egg nurtured by a mother bird ultimately hatched into a baby bird.
🙏🙏This fact gives us hope that no matter how unworthy, we can still become someone useful, just as the liquid in an egg transform into a bird.
💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️"Ultimately, we are responsible for our own destiny. It may seem to us that our fate is predetermined, whether by our genes or by our environment.
🛎What really matters, however, is how we can improve ourselves from this moment forward, how we can change the circumstances that we find ourselves in.
🙏💪This enormous transformative force is what Buddhism is all about. In this struggle lies the source of never-ending youth and vitality."
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7th May. DAILY GOSHO
Only the ship of Myoho-renge-kyo enables one to cross the sea of the sufferings of birth and death. 🙏🏻
A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering
5月7日，御书圣训:
献给您的每一天。
渡 生 死 之 大 海，非 妙 法 莲 华 经 之 船，不 遂 所 愿 。
《致椎地四郎书》 (《如渡得船御书》)
渡生死大海，若非妙法莲华经之船，则无法到达 。 🙏🏻
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7th May. Daily Guidance By Daisaku Ikeda:
It's important to live long, but how you live is even more important than how long you live. Did you accomplish your goals or not ? 🙏🏻
5月7日，池田先生今日指导：
长寿固然重要，更重要还是如何生活。是否完成了自己的使命？ 🙏🏻
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5月7日
同心祈求
要从齐心一致的祈求出发。无论面对怎样的奋战，我都决心定要为广宣流布、为师匠而取胜，以此目标来祈求。我也持续送题目给並肩作战的同志。和大家题目三唱时，也是抱着要齐心一致的一念来认真地唱诵。
这种齐心合力的力量，並不是"一加一等于二"这种"加法"，而是可以成为"十"或"一百"倍的力量。这个"希望的乘法"就是信心团结的奥妙。以信赖及鼓励团结一致，气势会不断增强。
组织里有各种各样的人。人人都是擁有尊贵使命的人，都是重要的佛。不要以自己的喜恶来判断他人，首先是向御本尊祈求，用广阔的心胸包容大家，一起前进。
《勝利的人學》
一一池田大作
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〈一生成佛抄〉
原文（御書405頁）
只今一念無明之迷心，是末磨之镜也；磨之，必成法性真如之明镜。须深發信心，日夜朝暮，磨之不懈。如何磨之？但唱奉南無妙法蓮華經，是云磨也。
白话
一一被（我们凡夫之）無明這根本迷惑心思所覆蓋的生命，就像一面末經磨拭的銅鏡，只要将它加以磨拭，一定會變成一面能映照出真實覺知智慧的明鏡。
一一要奮起強盛的信心，不論白天或黑夜、清晨或傍晚，都要仔細磨拭自己的生命，不可以懈怠。
一一要怎樣磨拭才好呢？那只有唱念南無妙法蓮華經，才叫做磨拭。
信仰的基本
信行学
一一池田大作
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Today's Gosho: 774
"I composed this poem in Echigo, so I will write it down to send to you.
No rain
falls aslant
on its own.
The wind must be why
it beats on the window at night.
Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 534)
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Friday, May 6th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"Strengthen your resolve
more than ever."
Buddhism is a battle against
a lack of change and apathy.
Let's earnestly recite
morning and evening gongyo!
And let's clearly distinguish
what the tasks and issues are
for the day!
*From "The Supremacy of the Law" WND-1, page 615
Friday, May 6th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
This I will state. Let the gods forsake me. Let all persecutions assail me. Still I will give my life for the sake of the Law.
(The Opening of the Eyes
- WND-1, page 280)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, May 6th, 2022
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Only through actions based on compassion and a sincere desire to nurture each individual can we bring forth the boundless benefits of faith. The key is to practice for oneself and others. I want to affirm that all of you, who courageously take such action, are carrying on the spirit of Nichiren Daishonin."
The New Human Revolution - Volume 27, Seeking Spirit 57, translation released April 2022.
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