[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho July 9th + Daily Enc. July 10th

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

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS –
"Showing them the same respect you would a Buddha,"*
let's make every effort to praise all of our fellow members
who are so selflessly dedicating themselves to
achieving kosen-rufu at the very forefront of our activities!
Encouragement is the driving force for great advancement.

* "Therefore, Universal Worthy, if you see a person who accepts and upholds
this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same
respect you would a Buddha" – The Lotus Sutra, "Encouragements of the
Bodhisattva Universal Worthy" chapter 28, "The Fourteen Slanders." WND p.
757

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land
is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are
not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in
the good or evil of our minds.'

(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 4) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo
Shimbun, July 9th, 2008

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Not letting your mistakes or troubles defeat you, but picking yourself up
and triumphing over them, using everything as a springboard for growth, for
fresh success or greater achievement--that attitude itself is truly
commendable."

SGI Newsletter No. 7579, 8th NATIONWIDE YOUTH DIVISION LEADERS MEETING--PART
2 [OF 2], Win through Courage, Triumph with Valour (Held in conjunction with
the Future Division General Meeting and the Soka Alumni Meeting, at the Soka
University Auditorium in Hachioji, Tokyo, on May 4th, 2008.) Translated
July 2nd, 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 O UYAMAU GA GOTOKU"
SAIZENSEN NO TOMO O TATAEYO!
HAGEMASHI KOSO
DAIZENSHIN NO CHIKARA DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO –
"SHUJO NO KOKORO KEGARUREBA DO MO KEGARE KOKORO KIYOKEREBA DO MO KIYOSHI
TOTE JODO TO II EDO TO IUMO DO NI FUTATSU NO HEDATE NASHI TADA WARERA GA
KOKORO NO ZENAKU NI YORU TO MIETARI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 384)

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