"The bond we share as fellow members of the SGI, mentor and disciples, is based on the vow to dedicate ourselves to the great adventure of realising kosen-rufu in this troubled saha world.
"Through courageous and compassionate dialogue, our grassroots movement has helped one suffering individual after another embrace the Gohonzon. Today, in countries around the world, members who uphold the Gohonzon—fellow Bodhisattvas of the Earth—are forging ahead heroically. While striving to overcome their own karmic trials, they bravely hold aloft the banner of happiness and victory for themselves and others.
"Proud and aware of their mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth, our members have stood up to enable all people of the Latter Day of the Law to savour life’s true triumph. They are the genuine disciples and noble emissaries of the Buddha.
"Mr. Toda declared: 'To meet and encounter an auspicious time, to be in rhythm with that time, makes having been born worthwhile.'[1]
"We have entered an age when the banner pledging the 'fulfillment of the great vow for kosen-rufu through the compassionate propagation of the great Law' continues to spread all around the globe. No one can stop our momentum.
"Let’s continue to forge ahead with confident and buoyant steps to expand our unprecedented movement for the victory of humanity, and fulfill our noble mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth."
SGI Newsletter No. 8691, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [43] “Reply to Niiama.” The Gohonzon Opens the Way to Happiness for All People, from the August 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 25th Dec. 2012
[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings
of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1989), vol. 4, p. 287.
"Through courageous and compassionate dialogue, our grassroots movement has helped one suffering individual after another embrace the Gohonzon. Today, in countries around the world, members who uphold the Gohonzon—fellow Bodhisattvas of the Earth—are forging ahead heroically. While striving to overcome their own karmic trials, they bravely hold aloft the banner of happiness and victory for themselves and others.
"Proud and aware of their mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth, our members have stood up to enable all people of the Latter Day of the Law to savour life’s true triumph. They are the genuine disciples and noble emissaries of the Buddha.
"Mr. Toda declared: 'To meet and encounter an auspicious time, to be in rhythm with that time, makes having been born worthwhile.'[1]
"We have entered an age when the banner pledging the 'fulfillment of the great vow for kosen-rufu through the compassionate propagation of the great Law' continues to spread all around the globe. No one can stop our momentum.
"Let’s continue to forge ahead with confident and buoyant steps to expand our unprecedented movement for the victory of humanity, and fulfill our noble mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth."
SGI Newsletter No. 8691, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [43] “Reply to Niiama.” The Gohonzon Opens the Way to Happiness for All People, from the August 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 25th Dec. 2012
[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings
of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1989), vol. 4, p. 287.
