第3回SGI线上讲座

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第3回SGI线上讲座
1.  过去两年，我们举行过一年一度线上教学会，由当时的森中 SGI 教学部长主讲，相信大家都从中获益良多。

 
2. 今年再次会为所有的 SGI 会员举行第 3 回的 SGI 线上讲座。

 
3. 讲座的主题是"世界广布大道:学习小说《新人间革命》"。

 
4. 这一回将由池田博正 SGI 副会长主讲。

 
5. 讲座将分上下两部分来举行，每一部分各长 29 分钟。

 
6. 总共是大约一小时。

 
7. 总部已经安排在 9 月的第一和第二个周末和周日在各间会馆举行。

 
8. 也就是说，讲座将取代原有的第一个周末、周日的世界和平勤行会，以及第二 个周末、周日的全国教学会。

 
9.  时间表和详情

SGI Online Lecture

4 Sep (Sun) 10am R1 SGI online lecture -- English @TSC MTA

10 Sep (Sat) 8pm R1 SGI online lecture -- Mandarin @ HQ ICA

 
10. 让我们互相鼓励，一起出席这个教学会，因为的确难得有机会向池田博正副会 长学习。博正副会长这些年都一直在池田先生身边，亲眼看到先生作为户田先 生的弟子，倾注全生命为全人类的幸福在奋斗。

 
11. 博正副会长在教学中，会从不同的角度加以说明，让我们对《新人间革命》有 深入的了解。

 
12. 第一部分的教学会将会解释《新人间革命》的意义，它对我们以及后代的学会 员，还有，对池田先生具有什么意义。

 
13. 博正副会长的解说将提供给我们关于小说的意义的很多全新的视角。其中就包 括池田先生决定接受这项空前的挑战时的内心感受。

 
14. 博正副会长肯定会让我们深入地感觉到先生深邃的慈悲，以及《新人间革命》 对先生有多重要，肯定会让我们眼界大开。

 
15. 第二部分的教学会，博正副会长将进入《新人间革命》的内容，尤其是集中在 第30卷。

 
16. 他也会强调贯穿整部小说的几个重要主题，以及池田先生基于对青年的希望和期待而有的 对遥远未来的构想。

 
17. 我相信  这个教学会  对被称为"新人间革命世代"的青年部  尤其重要。

 
18. 纵然那只是冰山一角，还是确实让人感受到先生对青年的慈爱。

 
19. 博正副会长在整个教学会中  会让我们一再看到先生的心意，当中有很多  如果不是博正副会长讲出来，我们是绝对想不到的。

 
20. 总的来说，不论我们有没有读过《新人间革命》，这保证会是一个最有鼓舞性 和启发性的教学。

 
21. 它会让我们  有想要从座位上跳起来，马上去拿一本来读的感觉! 

22. 我们到时在教学会上见!

 
感谢大家!

 
/完

Preface | Soka Gakkai (global)

https://www.sokaglobal.org/resources/study-materials/buddhist-study/the-wisdom-for-creating-happiness-and-peace/preface.html

Preface

The following is President Ikeda's preface to the new edition of The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, a three-volume collection of selected excerpts from his works, the first volume of which was published in book form in Japanese on November 18, 2020. Based on the collection of selected excerpts that was first serialized in the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study journal, from April 2014 through February 2018, the new edition contains numerous additional selections as well as a partial rearrangement of chapters.

The conversation I had with my mentor, Josei Toda, on the day we first met is still vivid in my mind today:

"Sensei, I would like to ask you a question."
"What would you like to know? Go ahead, ask whatever you wish."
"What is the correct way to live?"

It was the summer of 1947, two years after the end of World War II. In response to this earnest question from a 19-year-old youth seeking direction in life in the troubled postwar period, Mr. Toda was warm and embracing, like a compassionate father. He was a mentor who prized above all young people's desire to learn.

With powerful conviction, he introduced me to the life philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin and encouraged me to study and practice it with youthful energy and idealism. From that moment on, I steadfastly pursued the path of mentor and disciple, eagerly seeking instruction from Mr. Toda, whom I had taken as my mentor in life and in the eternal endeavor for kosen-rufu.

Ninety-eight percent of what I am today I learned from my mentor, at what I refer to as "Toda University." I once shared this point in a lecture I delivered at Columbia University Teachers College.

For Mr. Toda, a peerless humanistic educator and a leader of the people, the essence of both education and guidance in faith was encouragement. He inherited this spirit, which has today become a proud tradition of Soka, from his own mentor, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, the Soka Gakkai's founder who died in prison for his beliefs.

Nichiren Daishonin affirms that "The Lotus Sutra is the teaching that enables all living beings to attain the Buddha way" (WND-1, 59). The Daishonin's Buddhism of the Sun, revealing the essence of the Lotus Sutra, is a source of compassion and wisdom that can illuminate the hearts of all people. In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, he states: "Great joy [is what] one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind [or life] from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys" (OTT, 211–12).

Encouragement in the realm of Soka means shining the light of the Mystic Law on each person, awakening their inherent Buddhahood, and revitalizing their lives at the most fundamental level.

As members of the Soka family, we have always reached out to support those around us, no matter how deep their sorrow, how great their despair, or how challenging their karma. We have stood together with them, encouraging them to be confident that they can surmount any hardship, find a way forward, and become happy without fail.

This great grassroots movement, undaunted by any manner of oppression, has spread throughout the world, unleashing life's innate power, fostering diverse individuals, each as unique as "the cherry, the plum, the peach, and the damson" (OTT, 200), and enabling people everywhere to triumph in their own human revolution.

It is no exaggeration to say that this movement of, by, and for the people—built upon unshakable principles and beautiful unity that seeks to empower all—is the hope of global society.

Natural disasters, pandemics, and other ongoing trials afflict people in every corner of the world, and words of encouragement play a crucial role in strengthening community ties and fortifying the resilience to rise to the challenge of various crises.

In Buddhism, the ideal of leadership is symbolized by the wheel-turning sage king, a monarch who governs with what is called a wheel treasure. Nichiren Daishonin offers the following observation:

"To go round and round unendingly in the cycle of birth and death, birth and death, throughout the three existences of past, present, and future, is what is called being a wheel-turning sage king. The wheels that the wheel-turning sage kings possess when they make their appearance in the world, their 'wheel treasures' are the words and sounds that we ourselves utter. And these sounds, our 'wheel treasures,' are Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. This is what is called 'the great wisdom of equality'" [LSOC11, 209–10]. (OTT, 76)

While steadfastly chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and grappling with our own and others' sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, our words of conviction and earnest encouragement that triumph over all malicious slurs and lies are like our very own "wheel treasures" that we are turning across the globe. Inheriting this great humanistic spirit, our youthful global citizens of Soka are currently dynamically engaged in the shared endeavor to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are based on the fundamental wish that no one be left behind.

My mentor has been a constant presence in the depths of my heart in my ongoing efforts to speak and write about kosen-rufu and the meaning of life, Buddhism and society, peace and the dignity of life, youth and the future, and many other topics.

The writings, speeches, lectures, dialogues, and poetry from my lifelong struggle of words, one in spirit with my mentor, have been compiled into 150 volumes of collected works. As the compilation process was nearing completion, some of our enterprising members, brimming with youthful spirit, proposed the idea of compiling a selection of excerpts from that collection for the new era of worldwide kosen-rufu.

Motivating this project was their enthusiasm to produce a common study resource for our members around the world. Adopting the title "The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace," they set about choosing excerpts covering a range of themes and coordinating the translation of these selections.

I am delighted by their noble spirit of voluntarily taking on this time-consuming and challenging task. They have exerted themselves tirelessly to respond to the ardent seeking spirit of their fellow members, to promote the united progress of worldwide kosen-rufu, and to support the efforts of future generations of members to study Nichiren Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai spirit.

The results of their dedicated work were published in monthly installments in the Soka Gakkai's study magazine, Daibyakurenge. As I reviewed the page proofs, I felt as if I were engaging in a fresh dialogue with my beloved disciples.

Over the four years during which those installments were published in Japanese, painstaking efforts were made to translate them and ensure that readers around the world could access them. I am pleased they, along with additional excerpts, are now being published in book form, and I would like to express my boundless gratitude to all those involved in this task.

I would like to dedicate this book, a collection of words of encouragement that embody the oneness of mentor and disciple, to Presidents Makiguchi and Toda and entrust it to our precious successors.

Nichiren Daishonin states:

"When teacher and disciples have fully responded to one another and the disciples have received the teaching, so that they gain the awakening referred to where the sutra says, 'I took a vow, hoping to make all persons equal to me, without any distinction between us' [LSOC2, 70], this is what the sutra calls 'causing living beings to awaken to the Buddha wisdom'" [cf. LSOC2, 64]. (OTT, 30)

As mentors and disciples committed to fulfilling the vow of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, let us demonstrate at all times and in all places the "wisdom of the truth that functions in accordance with changing circumstances" (OTT, 10). President Toda calls to us in one of his poems that I treasure:

The journey to propagate
the Mystic Law
is long;
let us encourage each other
and advance together.

Let us, therefore, "encourage each another and advance together" as we continue on our journey to propagate the Mystic Law into the eternal future of the Latter Day of the Law!

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than if this book provides encouragement and sustenance to Soka Gakkai members everywhere as they proceed along that path.

—On August 14, 2020, the 73rd anniversary of the start of my journey of kosen-rufu alongside my mentor.

Daisaku Ikeda

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Important to share buddhism in a more accessible way … in accord with the times

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 13日
日复一日，每个瞬间都充分燃烧，人生才金光闪闪。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 13
The lives of those who exert themselves fully at each moment, day after day, shine like gold.
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🌞Good Day Myo Ho friends!
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you. 🙆‍♀️Let's encourage one other.
👋👋Live true to yourself!
👋👋To follow our own convictions!
👋👋To shine with supreme strength, brilliance and happiness is to base one's life on Buddhism.

🛎🛎"A person who chants strong
and consistent daimoku will
never be deadlocked"🙏📿


📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

🌈🌤"To live each day to the best of your ability, to truly say that you are satisfied with what you have achieved – these unflagging efforts lead to a life of great victory.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️It may seem quite ordinary and mundane, but this is the noblest path of life. It is the path of outstanding human beings."

👋👋"First of all, let's overcome our own weaknesses.
✌️💪With this victory, we can launch a fresh and fulfilling day. Buddhist practice begins with winning over our own weaknesses."


💪😀"People who have vibrant life force are happy.
💪😄People with strong conviction are happy.
✌️✌️They can lead positive, successful lives.
😣😖Those who are weak, in contrast, are miserable.
They create misery and unhappiness for
themselves.
🙏📿Practising Nichiren Buddhism enables us to become as strong as we possibly can.
✌️✌️To live in such a way that we can perceive everything in terms of faith and are always determined to overcome everything through faith means to walk the path to eternal happiness.
🫵🫵You yourself are precious beyond measure each and every one of you.
🙏The Daishonin taught this to his disciples while he himself was facing major persecution.
🇧🇪And the Soka Gakkai's first and second presidents, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, faithfully embraced the heart
of the Daishonin's Buddhism and taught it to people from all walks of life.
👋👋With great conviction, let us continue to forge ahead powerfully along this path, which is directly connected to Nichiren Daishonin."
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Friday, August 12th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Buddhism is a teaching
that helps us to lead
a healthy way of life.
Let's therefore strive to:
"Do a resonate gongyo
full of vitality,"
"Have a lifestyle free of
excess or overexertion,"
"Devote ourselves
to activities enthusiastically"
and
"Develop healthy,
educated eating habits"!

Friday, August 12th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
Until kosen-rufu is achieved, propagate the Law to the full extent of your ability without begrudging your life.

(The Twenty-six Admonitions of Nikko - Article 13)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin
Seikyo Newspaper
- Friday, August 12th, 2022

Saturday, August 13th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Introducing Buddhist principles, in terms of life philosophy, enables a wider audience to gain an understanding of Nichiren Buddhism. For Buddhism to spread on a broader scale, it is essential to explain its teachings in an accessible way, staying relevant to the times and taking into account contemporary ideas and scientific insights."

The New Human Revolution—Vol. 28, Songs of Kosen-rufu 9, translation released July 2022
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Today's Gosho: 872

"Shakyamuni Buddha called forth the Bodhisattvas of the Earth and entrusted to them these five characters that constitute the essence of the sutra. This is the teaching that was transferred to the bodhisattvas who had been the disciples of the Buddha since the remote past."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 746)
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8月13日
自觉"地涌使命"
圣训云："有志为斯人之弟子檀那者，宜思宿缘深厚，须同日莲共弘法华经。"（〈与寂日法师书〉，御书九三六页）
我们是誓愿共同为广宣流布奋战，为了于现今达成使命而生的地涌菩萨。只要自觉此使命及宿缘，唱题祈求，自己的生命就会涌现无限的力量和智慧。
折伏就是最高的佛的行动，所以要明朗愉快地挑战。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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Strengthen your resolve more than ever … Ice is made of water yet colder than liquid water

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 14日
一点点时间都不浪费，如何有效地利用，如何做出看不见的努力，这就是一切胜败的关键。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 14
Victory in any endeavor is decided by how effectively and fully we use our limited time, and how hard we work even when our efforts go unnoticed.
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🌞Good day Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you. 🙆‍♀️Let's encourage one other.

👋👋To be studying the great principles
of Nichiren Buddhism is truly admirable. 👋👋Those who read the Daishonin's writings every day, even just a little at a time, are able to tap fresh inspiration that will keep their faith healthy and sound.

🙏🙏The Daishonin's writings are incredibly profound.
👍✌️📖Each reading brings new discoveries and rouses fresh
determinations.


🙏Nichiren Daishonin ✍️

👀👀"To the eyes of ordinary people, they look like characters.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️Persons of the two vehicles [i.e., voice-hearers and cause-awakened ones] perceive them as the void.
🙏😇Bodhisattvas look on them as innumerable doctrines. Buddhas recognise each character as a golden Shakyamuni.
👋👋This is what is meant by the passage that says,
🙏📖"[If one can uphold this sutra],
one will be upholding the Buddha's body" [LSOC11,220]. (WND-1, 486)

🙇🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️Similarly, the words of a passage in the Daishonin's writings can take on a different depth of meaning depending on our life state or mind-set.


📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

🇧🇪💁🏻‍♂️"President Toda often used to say that when studying the Daishonin's writings, rather than focusing on the
meaning of the words,
🙏😇🙏we should strive to connect with the Daishonin's towering conviction, his solemn, fervent commitment to kosen-rufu, and his boundless compassion in seeking to lead all people to enlightenment.

😌It's fine to just read the Daishonin's writings a little bit at a time.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️It doesn't matter if you can't understand everything at first. What matters is to keep trying to read the Daishonin's writings and steadily engraving them in your life.
👋👋Over time, as you repeat that process, you will create a solid core of philosophy in your life.
Those who possess such an inner core will not be shaken by life's never-ending changes.
🙏😀The ultimate aim of our Buddhist study is to become happy. We practise Nichiren Buddhism not only for our
own happiness but to help others become happy, too."
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Today's Gosho: 873

"Shakyamuni Buddha transferred this teaching to Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and now Nichiren propagates it in Japan.
With regard to the transfer of teachings, it is divided into two categories: general and specific. If you confuse the general with the specific even in the slightest, you will never be able to attain Buddhahood and will wander in suffering through endless transmigration of births and deaths."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 747)
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8月14日
下种会产生无量无边的生命财宝
折伏就是彻底重视每一个人，真诚地作鼓励的最尊贵的行动。
有时候无论怎样为了对方的幸福而拚命诉说也未必能打动对方、也会为此感到可惜。但这一切的辛劳，全部会转变为生命财宝。
日莲佛法是下种佛法。只要能够诉说佛法，纵使是一言半句也好，都能在这人的生命大地植下佛种。这佛种有朝一日定会萌芽开花，结出果实。
正因为创价之友努力不懈地持续于各地撒播佛种，广宣流布的森林已扩展到世界各个角落。
现今的社会在强烈追求佛法。希望大家勇气凛然地展开青年的信念对话。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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池田大作先生指导：无论多么辛苦，都要想到"他人能行，自己也就没有不行的理由"、"把自己的能力发挥到极点"，以此目标来努力。要相信自己。爱与他人比较，从中或小看自己、或产生优越感，这种人生观是可悲的。
____________________
Saturday, August 13th, 2022

-- TO MY FRIENDS --

Be alert to sudden changes
in weather conditions!Beware of heavy rains
that might cause rivers to flood
or landslides.By keeping up with
the most current information
and not letting our guard down,
let's take quick action!


Saturday, August 13th, 2022

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Strengthen your resolve more than ever. Ice is made of water, but it is colder than water. Blue dye comes from indigo, but when something is repeatedly dyed in it, the colour is better than that of the indigo plant."


(The Supremacy of the Law
- WND, Vol. 1, page 615)Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Aug. 13th, 2022Sunday, August 14th, 2022---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----"Enriching people's hearts through the power of culture and bringing people together through the power of dialogue—this is the essential focus of our efforts for value creation."

Ascending a New Summit of Kosen-rufu Rufu, Dynamic Progress towards a Life State of Eternity, Happiness, True Self and Purity, Seikyo Newspaper May 10th, 2022 issue. Translation released August 2022.


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Daishonin’s compassion and debt of gratitude is immense 🙏

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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Importance of meeting good friends

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 10日
诚实的品格表现出彬彬有礼的举止，由此产生信赖。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 10
Sincerity expresses itself as considerate behavior, which fosters trust and confidence.
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🙏10th Aug Daily Guidance by Daisaku Ikeda: 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.

池田先生今日指导：
归根到底，重要的还是＂人品＂和＂人格＂。孕育友情的基础是相互尊敬、柤互信赖的精神。当然，有时也会发生争论、争吵吧。但是，根本上必须是＂亲密也要有个分寸＂，万不得任意妄为。🙏
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2022-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"When one knows the Lotus Sutra,
one understands the meaning
of all worldly affairs."*
It's at times when
it is difficult
to foresee the future
that we advance based
on the Daishonin's writings.
Let the bright sun rise
in our hearts!

* "The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind Established in the Fifth Five-Hundred-Year Period after the Thus Come One's Passing", WND-l page 376
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There can be no doubt that all people, from the ruler on down to the general populace, rejoice in and desire the stability of the nation and the peace of the world."

("On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land,"
WND-l page 23)
Selection Source: Shijo Seminar
– The Radiance of Buddhist Philosophy
Seikyo Newspaper: August 9th, 2022
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The microbiologist Dr. René Dubos (1901–82) said: 'Crises are practically always a source of enrichment and of renewal because they encourage the search for new solutions.'*

"We can transform our karma and change poison into medicine by courageously standing up in times of crisis. This is the 'heart of a lion king' (WND-1, 302) that overflows in Soka mentors and disciples."

Our Brilliant Human Revolution, The Time Is Now! Let's Create a Whirlwind of Dialogue! May 24th, 2022 issue of Seikyo Newspaper, translation released August 2022.

* René Dubos, Beast or Angel?: Choices That Make Us Human (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974), p. 209.
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池田大作先生指导：以我为中心——也就是说，只要是以心为师，那么烦恼将会无穷尽；相反的，若成为心之师，把自己的一念指向明朗、愉快的一面，那么，四周亦会随之转向这个方向。
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毎日一句
8月10日
登山辛苦，攀登高山更辛苦，但攀爬到山顶后的辽阔、高昂胸襟，是待在低处之人所无法体会的。

国际创价学会会长师匠大作
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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)


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How maintains are really made

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 12日
所谓「前途莫测」，看着像是一帆风顺，却不知什么在等待，这就是人生的航路。因此才需要宗教，作为人生的罗盘，信念的后盾。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 12
Although smooth sailing may seem to lie ahead, life's course always remains uncertain. That's why we all need a solid life philosophy that can be our guide and compass, a strong system of values and beliefs.
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🌞Good Day Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you. 🙆‍♀️Let's encourage one other.

👋👋True victory exists in transforming suffering into joy.
💪💪Winter always turns to spring.
✌️✌️Spring of happiness! Is Spring of Victory!

📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

🌸🌼"Spring is the time when flowers bloom.
❄️❄️But in order to bloom, flowers need the cold of winter.
🤔🤔What would happen if there was no winter?

🍁🍂In autumn, plants that bloom in spring prepare to enter a period of dormancy, or recharging.
🐿They start saving energy for the coming spring.
👉🥀If there is a sudden warm spell during their dormancy in winter and they are awakened, the buds waiting for spring's arrival start to open before they are ready, and when the winter cold returns, they wither and die.
❄️❄️To prevent that from happening, plants will not bloom unless they have fully experienced the cold of winter.
🌼🌸This is the "wisdom" of plants that enables them to bloom in spring.

🙏😇Life and Buddhist practice also follow this principle.
🔋🔌A winter of adversity is the time to recharge our batteries and temper ourselves for the arrival of a wonderful spring.
💪💪In life's winters, the eternal and indestructible energy for attaining Buddhahood is stored up, and life force as vast as the universe is forged. This energy, in addition, grows in response to adversity and hardship.
🙏😇And all who practice the correct teaching of Buddhism will without fail experience the coming of spring.

😖😣But if, in the difficult times of life's winters, we try to avoid or doubt the realm in which we strengthen our faith, and as a result we fail to accumulate enough strength and good fortune, we will never get anywhere, nor be able to lead a truly satisfying life.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️The crucial thing is how we challenge ourselves and how meaningfully we spend our time during life's winters.
🛎🛎What matters is how deeply we live with the conviction that spring will definitely arrive.
🌸🌼In the realm of nature, the flowering springtime always comes when the time is right. That is the rhythm of life and the universe.
👋👋But far too many people in the world are still in the midst of winter when they reach the end of their lives.
💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️To avoid that fate, we need to align our lives with the rhythm of the universe that calls forth spring.
🙏📿And our Buddhist practice based on faith in the Mystic Law is what enables us to do that.

🙏🪷In that sense, faith in the Mystic Law functions as our wings to eternal happiness.
💪💪Every time we overcome difficulties, we accumulate good fortune and elevate our state of life.
🙏😇By attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime, we are able to soar serenely through the vast skies of life in a state of supreme happiness and fulfillment throughout eternity. This is the teaching of Buddhism and the rhythm of life."
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Thursday, August 11th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Imposing mountains are formed
by major crustal movements.
Likewise,
humans can also build a strong self
in the midst of upheavals.
Let's become champions of life
who can transform all trials into
priceless treasures!

*The first president of the Soka Gakkai, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, offers this profound guidance: "Although there is a saying that even dust, when it accumulates, can form a mountain, there are in fact no mountains that have been made from accumulated dust... Real mountains are formed by sudden, dramatic shifts in the earth's crust." President Makiguchi strictly teaches us here that we can only fundamentally transform ourselves and build an unshakable state of life by engaging in an earnest struggle of great good against great evil.
(ref. Ikeda Sensei's essay,
"Thoughts on The New Human Revolution"
published in the Seikyo Newspaper,
July 14th, 2001 issue)

Thursday, August 11th, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."

(Happiness in This World
- WND, Vol. 1, page 681)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, August 11th, 2022

Friday, August 12th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"By living in rhythm with the Mystic Law, we are always able to energise and invigorate our lives."

Ascending a New Summit of Kosen-rufu Rufu, Dynamic Progress towards a Life State of Eternity, Happiness, True Self and Purity, Seikyo Newspaper May 10th, 2022 issue. Translation released August 2022.
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8月12日
学会正是世界的希望
一个人真正的伟大，取决于什么？不是看地位或名声，而是取决于秉持和实践怎样的思想和哲学。
圣训云："所持之法，若是第一，所持之人，亦必是第一。"（〈持妙法华问答抄〉，御书四八七页）
阐明万众生命尊严，展现人类永远幸福及和平道路的佛法，正是最高境界的思想，是"第一的哲学"。而学习此佛法並将其弘扬的青年，就是戴着至高无上宝冠的"最了不起的人"。
时代正渴求哲学。创价的青年要成为伟大的幸福胜利贤者，向朋友心房送上灿烂的希望哲理之光！
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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Today's Gosho: 871

"All of you should prepare yourselves mentally for what may come. Do not let concern for wife and children or other family members deter you.
Do not fear those in authority. Now is the time to break free from the bonds of this realm of birth and death and to obtain the fruit of Buddhahood!"

Nichiren Daishonin (WND 2, 333)
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Meaning of Nammyohorengekyo is the greatest of all joys

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 7日
幸福取决于自己，取决于自己的心。若拥有坚强的心，景色就完全不同了。所看到的完全不同。坚强是幸福。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 7
When we draw strength from within, our outlook undergoes a dramatic transformation; everything around us looks completely different. To be strong—that is the key to happiness.
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🌞Good Day Myo Ho friends!
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you. 🙆‍♀️Let's encourage one other.
👋👋 Let has have joy and vitality, courage and wisdom .
👋👋Filling our lives with visible brilliance and good fortune and benefit.


📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️"Eternal Buddhahood manifests in the depths of the lives of those who take action daily to widely declare and spread Buddhism for Mystic Law and for the happiness of those regardless of how much theory they
"know".
👋👋Such action is a source of inexpressible joy and vitality, courage and wisdom. It is the origin from whence a sense of exuberance wells forth infusing and permeating their lives.
🙏👍Their lives are filled with visible brilliance and good fortune and benefit.
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️Those who truly embrace the Mystic Law are most noble just
as they are. And it is in their lives that the world of the great and eternal life
of "Life Span" chapter appears.
🙏😇This is the true condition of immortality.
😰This is a turbulent age, an age of drastic changes. At times, you may feel swallowed up by your hardships. 😥You may confront many trials and tribulations in life.
🛎🛎What is important is to develop strong confidence in the Gohonzon, no matter what happens.
🙏🌞Please reveal the brilliant sun of "eternal life" in your life.
💪💪Let us soar courageously into the morning sky of hope with the everlasting vigour of a phoenix!"


🙏"The Daishonin says that even if we face many difficulties,
👋👋as long as we persevere undefeated and remain steadfast in our faith, then the benefit of attaining Buddhahood will naturally come to us of Itself.
🙏😇This is termed "gaining Buddhahood without seeking it.

🧐🧐Why should we be able to attain Buddhahood even if we do not seek it, if
we continue to carry through faith in face of difficulties?
💁🏻‍♀️Firstly, it is because the lives of all living beings are inherently entities of Myoho-renge-kyo or the Mystic Law.
💁🏻‍♂️And secondly, it is because our strong faith causes the limitless functions of Myoho-renge-kyo that reside within our lives to manifest without impediment.
🙏😇So that is why Nichiren Daishonin said that Buddhahood naturally comes to us of itself. "

( 📝To be continued on….)

📚President Ikeda gave a lecture on how Myoho-renge-kyo comes to function in our lives .
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Today's Gosho: 865

"If these words of mine are false, then may I be punished by the ten demon daughters who protect the Lotus Sutra that I embrace. I say all this solely for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the Law, for the sake of others, not for my own sake."

Nichiren Daishonin (WND, 164)
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Saturday, August 6th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our patient and consistent efforts
to communicate with others
and spread the philosophy
of the dignity of life,
is the surest way to create peace.
Let's start and continue to have
hope-filled conversations,
wherever we are,
that will help turn conflict
into solidarity.

Saturday, August 6th, 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, August 6th, 2022

Sunday, August 7th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"A district women's leader asked the meaning of the passage 'Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys' (OTT, 212) as it applies to our daily lives. I responded to this earnest question: 'Whatever problems you may face, if you continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with the spirit of "regarding both suffering and joy as facts of life" (cf.WND–1, 681), joy will well forth within you. When you are filled with joy, you will ignite the same joy in all those who see you. Not only will you yourself savour a joyous life state and daily existence but you will help others do the same. This is surely "the greatest of all joys," don't you think?'"

Our Brilliant Human Revolution, The Time Is Now! Let's Create a Whirlwind of Dialogue! May 24th, 2022 issue of Seikyo Newspaper, translation released August 2022.

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8月7日
将"生命尊严"作为时代精神
日莲大圣人云："一日之命胜于三千界之财"（〈可延定业书〉，御书一O二三页）
生命是全宇宙最尊贵的财宝。因此不管是什么理由，也绝不能伤害自己或他人的生命，要给矛最大的尊敬。我们要确立佛法所说的"生命尊严哲学"，以此作为万众共有的时代精神。
一直以来，人类受尽战争及暴力所带来的痛苦。现在，来转换这个宿命的，就是现代的"立正安國"的对话，以及创价的和平运动。
世界有识之士对此也愈益期待。现今正是青年部自豪地奋起之时。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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Nichiren Buddhism enables us to find deeper meaning in hardships

每日箴言
池田大作出版著作

8月 3日
抬头看看星星、月亮、写写诗，拥有馀裕的心也很重要。以广大的心胸凝视宇宙，也等于在凝视自己的人生。

Daily Encouragement
Daisaku Ikeda's

August 3
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.
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Good Day Myo Ho friends !
🙏Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo to you.
🙆‍♀️Let's encourage one other.
👋👋The path to achieving the goal of Buddhist practice is attaining the life state of Buddhahood.
👋👋"Human Revolution" is a state of perfecting oneself in this present lifetime.
👋👋The aim of our Buddhist practice is none other than achieving our human revolution.

📝Let's learn from Ikeda Sensei's guidance

💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️7 signs of inner transformation based on a life of courageous action.


📚The New Human Revolution, Vol 19, Chapter" Sunlight" , pg 184–88

🇧🇪Ikeda Sensei ✍️

🙏🪷😇 "Our lives, both body and spirit, are entities of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, and human revolution is the process of manifesting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the life state of Buddhahood, therein.

🤔🤔What, then, characterizes human revolution?
🧐🧐What does it look like?

💁🏻‍♂️I offer some points on this subject to you today.

1. 🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️Health
✅"The first is regarding health.
We need to demonstrate the power of our practice in accord with the concept of 'faith manifested in health.'
💁🏻‍♂️Of course, the question of karma is also involved; nevertheless, when our health is compromised we cannot be as active as we would like.
💁🏻‍♀️Given that we are made of flesh and blood, it is only natural that we will experience sickness.
🛎But the important thing is our earnest Buddhist prayer to be healthy and to attune our lives to the fundamental rhythm of the universe at the deepest level.
🛎🛎Without such profundity in our prayer and a balanced lifestyle, we cannot say that we are genuinely practicing Nichiren Buddhism."

2. 💃🕺Youthfulness
✅The second characteristic.
Maintaining a youthful spirit throughout our lives is proof of our human revolution. 👋👋As long as we continue to practice vibrantly and strive to improve and develop ourselves, we will never lose our youthful spirit.

3. 🙏🧧Good Fortune
✅The third characteristic was good fortune.
🙏📿✌️ All of the victories we achieve through chanting sincerely and working diligently for kosen-rufu come back to us as benefit and good fortune that adorn our lives and the lives of our loved ones.
🙏😇In our turbulent society, it is this good fortune that protects us and enables us to experience genuine fulfillment.

4. 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️Wisdom
✅The fourth quality was wisdom.
👍✌️To perfect ourselves and develop into leaders who can function effectively in society, we need to cultivate our minds. Failing to do so will lead to our defeat.

5. 💙💛❤️Passion
✅The fifth distinguishing characteristic is passion.
🙏🇧🇪True practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism burn with a passionate spirit to achieve kosen-rufu, and their lives shine. 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️No matter how intelligent we are, if we lose our passion and enthusiasm, it would be no exaggeration to say that we are little better than a living corpse. Passion is also a requirement for happiness.
🛎🛎For the most part, whether we are happy comes down to whether we can feel passionate about things in our lives.

6. 🙏💪Conviction
✅The sixth quality was conviction.
🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻Human revolution means to become a person who shines with firm conviction.
💁🏻‍♂️💁💁🏻‍♀️Without a sound philosophy, without conviction, we are like a ship without a compass; we lose our way in life and run the risk of becoming shipwrecked when the winds of adversity start to blow.

7. ✌️✌️Victory
✅The seventh and final characteristic of human revolution was victory.
🙏✌️Buddhism is about winning.
💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♀️It is through our achieving victory upon victory that we carry out our human revolution. A life of victory is a life of human revolution. Our lives and kosen-rufu are a struggle. When we triumph in those struggles, we can demonstrate the truth and correctness of our cause.


🙏🇧🇪After offering these seven characteristics of human revolution on
-health, youthfulness, good fortune,
wisdom, passion, conviction and victory-
💁🏻‍♂️Ikeda Sensei went on to say that being a true Buddhist practitioner also requires
bringing forth one's compassion, which embraces all of these characteristics."


💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♂️"When we make faith for overcoming hardships the foundation of our lives, we can definitely transform the negative into something positive in accord with the principle of changing poison into medicine.
🙏💪We can also definitely transform our karma, attain Buddhahood in this lifetime and open the path of kosen-rufu ever wider."
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Take the utmost care
against heat exhaustion!
While not hesitating
to use the air conditioner,
let's make sure
to stay well hydrated.
When outside,
let's also effectively take
preventive measures,
such as putting up a parasol,
wearing a hat (with a good brim),
etc..

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Just as flowers open up and bear fruit, just as the moon appears and invariably grows full, just as a lamp becomes brighter when oil is added, and just as plants and trees flourish with rain, so will human beings never fail to prosper when they make good causes."

("The Third Day of the New Year,"
WND-l page 1013 )
Selection Source:
Member's Experience in Faith
Seikyo Newspaper: August 2nd, 2022

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Buddhism enables us to find deeper meaning in hardships, encouraging us to see them as opportunities for strengthening our faith and our lives. Our faith grows stronger through confronting and challenging our karma head-on. The purpose of our Buddhist practice is to establish a serene, unshakeable state of happiness.

"The established Buddhist schools of the Daishonin's day taught that people's suffering and hardships were retribution for their negative causes, or bad karma, from past existences. But that explanation could not serve as a force for breaking through and transforming real-life challenges.

"Nichiren Buddhism, on the other hand, is a teaching that enables people to change their destiny. That is because the Mystic Law is the fundamental means for overcoming all suffering."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [75] To Our Future Division Members, the Torchbearers of Justice—Our Hope for the Future, Changing Karma into Mission, July 2021 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released May 2022.

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3rd Aug. DAILY GOSHO

One who abides by the Lotus Sutra will inevitably attain Buddhahood. Therefore, the devil king of the sixth heaven, the lord of this threefold world, will become intensely jealous of anyone who abides by the sutra. 🙏🏻

The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra

8月3日，御书圣训：
献给您的每一天。

持 法 华 经 者 因 必 成 佛，故 有 云 第 六 天 魔 王 之 三 界 之 主，对 持 此 经 之 人 强 嫉 。

《法华行者圣迹记》

受持法华经的人一定成佛 。才有名叫第六天魔王的三界主宰，对受持这部经的人非常嫉妒 。 🙏🏻
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🙏3rd Aug Daily Guidance by Daisaku Ikeda:
When your determination changes, everything else will begin to move in the direction you desire. The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fibre in your being will immediately orient itself towards your success. On the other hand, if you think, "This is never going to work out," then, at that instant, every cell in your being will be deflated and give up the fight, and everything then really will move in the direction of failure.

八月三日，池田先生今日指导：
一念改变的话，一切便会开始朝着那个方向运转。下决心说：＂好!＂的瞬间，全部神经会一下子朝着那个方向。若是心里想：＂不行了!＂在那一瞬间，全部神经会萎缩，真的朝不幸的方向去。🙏
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8月3日
从辛劳中造就自己
恩师户田城圣先生充满确信的教导："为广宣流布付出的辛劳，是必定有其意义，一点也绝不会白费。"
遇到不顺意的时候，正是建设伟大的自己的时候，定必会成为无量的福德。贯彻生命的"因果法理"绝对不会错。
有时候，即使真诚的对话，也可能招致对方的抗拒。但是这也会变为深厚的佛缘，有朝一日定会开花结果。
因此无论如何都要勇敢、真诚、明朗地畅谈信念。这份信赖会随着时间而变得深厚坚固。
《胜利的人学》
池田大作
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Today's Gosho: 862

"With the exception of this Lotus Sutra, the attainment of Buddhahood is not regarded as a possibility. Nowhere outside of this one sutra is there any indication that women can attain Buddhahood. In fact, in the sutras preached prior to the Lotus Sutra, women are looked on with great distaste….This being the case , women in particular should make the Lotus Sutra the object of their faith and devotion."


Nichiren Daishonin (WND2, 308/309)


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