Daily Practice - "Appreciating others just as they are"

Really wanted to share this link today; an experience from an SGI Australia member's victory in transforming her relationships with other people. Thank you Andreja for sharing. I am redetermining, after reading this, to truly value everyone and their unique qualities, especially during the times when we might not be working in complete harmony :) http://www.sgi.org/about-us/members-stories/the-courage-to-deepen-my-relationships.html

Daily Gosho - Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu

Let's recognise and celebrate our own unique qualities... Each of us, with the inherent capacity to manifest our Buddha nature, can contribute to the wellbeing of society in our own personal way, without having to become like someone else. We are unique, we are incomparable, we are BUDDHAS!

"When one comes to realise and see that each thing - the cherry, the plum, the peach, the damson - in its own entity, without undergoing any change, possesses the eternally endowed three bodies, then this is what is meant by the word ryo, 'to include' or 'all-inclusive'."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 784, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 200) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, July 25th, 2012