[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho July 1st + Daily Enc. July 2nd

A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo
Shimbun and more.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"The best way to attain Buddhahood is
to encounter a good friend."*
Try to seek out a good senior member
in faith and the practise whom
you can talk to about anything frankly and honestly.
Let's unite with 'good friends'**!

*"Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain" – WND-I, page 598
**Good Friends - http://www.sgi.org/buddhism/concepts/list/goodfriends.html

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"A wise person, while dwelling in security, anticipates danger; a perverse
one, while dwelling amid danger, takes security for granted."

(The Problem to Be Pondered Night and Day - The Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 621) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo
Shimbun, July 1st, 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a great leader who
fought successfully against the Nazi onslaught. When the Nazi forces were
bombing England, he looked up into the sky and encouraged his fellow
citizens. And in one of his speeches, he declared: 'You must not weaken in
any way in your alert and vigilant frame of mind.' It was his belief that
defeat would only come from a weakening of vigilance; that one's own
attitude--and not what the other side did--was the key to one's victory or
defeat. We in the Gakkai also need to have this spirit."

SGI Newsletter No. 7570, 18th SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING--PART
3 [OF 3]. Advance with a Youthful Spirit, May 21st, 2008. Translated June
17th, 2008

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends and Daily Gosho is available by
clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
http://www.sokanet.jp/sg/sn/member_support_top.html

--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
"HOTOKE NI NARU MICHI WA
ZENCHISHIKI NIWA SUGIZU"
NANDEMO HANASERU
SHINJIN NO SENPAI O MOTE!
YOKI TOMO TO RENTAI SEYO!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KENJIN WA YASUKI NI ITE AYAUKI O NAGEKI NEIJIN WA AYAUKI NI ITE YASUKI O
NAGEKU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 969)

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