{"id":293,"date":"2025-01-20T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-01-20T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:25:04","slug":"id293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/read\/id293\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTUS JEWELS\uff08Nichiren Shu News NO263\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br>A sleeping lion does not turn angry unless it is provoked. Waves do not rise unless a pole is thrust in the river. Likewise, if we do not refute the slanderer of the True Dharma, we will not encounter hardship.<br>\u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Letter to Lord Nambu Rokuro,Nambu Rokuro-dono Gosho (ST 80)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>All beings wish to live in peace. But as Nichiren demonstrated with Rissho Ankoku, we cannot have true peace without practicing the true Dharma. Too often we settle for a superficial peace, where we give in to our fear of making trouble and stay silent in the presence of abuse and injustice. Nichiren teaches us that for the world to live in true peace, we must learn to speak up for the benefit of all beings, even those who threaten us with hardship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sleeping lion does not turn angry unless it is provoked. Waves do not rise unless a pole is thrust in the river. Likewise, if we do not refute the slanderer of the True Dharma, we will not encounter hardship.\u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Letter to Lord Nambu Rokuro,Nambu Rokuro-dono Gosho (ST 80) All beings wish to live in peace. But as Nichiren demonstrated with Rissho Ankoku, we cannot have true peace without practicing the true Dharma. Too often we settle for a superficial peace, where we give in to our fear of making trouble and stay silent in the presence of abuse and injustice. Nichiren teaches us that for the world to live in true peace, we must learn to speak up for the benefit of all beings, even those who threaten us with hardship \u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read","tag-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}