[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Sep 5th + Daily Enc. Sep 6th

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

Friday, September 5th, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
With courage and then even more courage,
let's make every effort to enlarge our circle of friendships.
It's through such actions to make friends with others
that we can develop ourselves and really enjoy life.
Good friends are indeed lifelong treasures.

Friday, September 5th, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can he cross
one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"

(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, Vol.1, page 766) Selection
source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, September 5th, 2008

Saturday, September 6th, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin writes: 'The three obstacles and four devils will invariably
appear, and the wise will rejoice while the foolish will retreat' (WND-1,
637). Either we advance or we retreat; there is no middle ground. Either we
cringe in fear and surrender to the devilish functions--the negativity in
our own lives or in the lives of others--or we challenge this negativity and
deepen our conviction in faith. This difference in resolve determines
everything. The Daishonin himself faced the major ordeals of the
Tatsunokuchi Persecution and the Sado Exile with supreme confidence and
composure."

SGI Newsletter No. 7614, LEARNING FROM THE GOSHO: THE HOPE-FILLED WRITINGS
OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN, [10] "Letter to Misawa", translated Sep. 1st, 2008
from the July 2008 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai study
journal.

* 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 ---
YUJO O HIROGEYO!
YUKI! YUKI DE!
KOKO NI WARERA NO
ZENSHIN TO YOROKOBI GA ARU.
ZENYU KOSO JINSEI NO ZAISAN DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHIJO NO HORI O KOENU MONO JUJO NIJUJO NO HORI O KOU
BEKIKA"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 912)

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