Ikeda quote

Une nouvelle génération de bâtisseurs passe a l'action.

Le 15 Mai , 2010 ,plusieurs centaines de jeunes de la SGI du Canada venus de partout au pays se retrouveront  à Toronto pour lancer un nouveau programme scolaire en collaboration avec Enfants Entraide (Free the Children ) .Le but de ce programme est d'insuffler aux jeunes confiance et espoir pour les aider à surmonter leurs défis au quotidien.

THREE WAYS TO LOOK AT A THING

Why do we repeat to chant the

Nyoze-so, Nyoze-tai, ...Nyoze-honmatsu-kukyoto?

It is because there are three different ways to look at a thing. They are equality (ku), difference (ke), and totality (chu). It is based on T'ien-tai's "Three Kinds of Truth; ku, ke and chu." According to this doctrine, nothing exists (ku) by itself because things exist temporally (ke) only depending on other existence; therefore, we must look at all things in their totality (chu).

For instance, let's take an example of a table. A table must have a flat top supported by four legs. If I pull each of these legs off., it is no longer a table; just simple pieces of woods. Therefore, the table as such, existed only temporally.

Another example: I exist today because my parents existed. I also exist because of air, water, heat, food, and other people. If there is no air, water, food or others; I can not exist. I exist temporally because there are air, water, food and others.

Another way to look at all thing in three different ways, according to the Buddha's teaching, everyone is equal (ku) because everyone poses a Buddha nature in which he or she is able to someday become a Buddha. Everyone is equal, but everyone is different (ke) because there are the wise and the foolish, rich and poor, males and females. Women have the privilege of bearing children while men can't. We are equal but different (chu).

Although everyone has a nose, a mouth, and eyes (ku), the shapes of them vary as do fingerprints (ke). Therefore we are equal but different (chu).

Parents love their children equally (ku), but the ways they treat an eighteen year old boy from the two year old girl will naturally differ (ke). If the parents give them the same food in the same quantities, the parents are not being realistic. The parents love their children equally, but they treat each child differently respecting the child's age, sex, and interest. Wise parents treat their children with totality of each individual (chu).

Therefore, peace and happiness never come from insisting on equality only nor on differences only. We have to realize these equality within the differences and the differences within equality. Knowing individual differences, but respecting his or her interests, talents, education, and physical condition is the way forwards peace and harmony. Everyone is equal under the U.S. Constitution, however, we must respect other people's different cultures, backgrounds, and languages. It is the way to bring peace to America.

To remind ourselves of these teachings, we repeat the last phrases of the Hoben-pon chapter three times.

No beings or phenomena exist independently of other beings and phenomena. All beings and phenomena are caused to exist by other beings and phenomena. Further, the beings and phenomena thus caused to exist cause other beings and phenomena to exist. Things and beings perpetually arise and perpetually cease because other things and beings perpetually arise and perpetually cease. All this arising and being and ceasing go on in one vast field or nexus of beingness. And there we are.
In Buddhism, there is no teaching of a First Cause. How all this arising and ceasing began, or even if it had a beginning, is not explained. The Buddha emphasized understanding the nature of things as-they-are over speculation of what might have happened in the past or what might happen in the future. It might be said that the Buddhist version of Genesis is: Stuff happens, because other stuff happens.
Also, things are the way they are because they are conditioned by other things. You are conditioned by other people and phenomena. Other people and phenomena are conditioned by you.
The Buddha explained,
When this is, that is.
This arising, that arises.
When this is not, that is not.
This ceasing, that ceases.

Kosen Rufu Day

Today is March 16th ,Kosen Rufu Day.It celebrates the day that President Toda passed the torch of spreading Nichiren's Buddhism directly to the youth of the Soka Gakkai , and in particular to his successor, Daisaku Ikeda. The year was 1958.

Festival de la Jeunesse 2010

Festival de la Jeunesse a Toronto en Mai May 14-16, 2010 . Pour en savoir plus.
Ta Victoire est ma Victoire .Your Victory is my Victory.

" For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins : starstuff pondering the stars ; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billiom atoms ; tracing the long journey by which ,here at least ,consciousness arose....Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos ,ancient  and vast from which we spring." Carl Sagan