[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Nov. 22nd + Daily Enc. Nov 23rd

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

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
What we achieve in the future depends on
the causes we are making here and now.*
Let's do our utmost, right now, to be successful in whatever we are doing!
By using our courage and wisdom and by having perfect unity,
let's build a future that is brimming with great benefit and good
fortune.

* "If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at
the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to
understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes
that exist in the present." - "Opening of the Eyes", WND-I, page 279

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The meaning of this sutra passage is that the heavenly
gods and benevolent deities will assume various forms such
as those of men and women, and present offerings to help
the persons who practice the Lotus Sutra."

(The Izu Exile - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 35) Selection source: Soka Gakkai member's
experience, Seikyo Shimbun, November 22nd, 2008

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"A genuine practitioner of the Daishonin's Buddhism regards hardship as a
badge of honour."

SGI Newsletter No. 7662, 23RD SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING--PART
3 [OF 4] Confronting Obstacles with the Determination to Win, Oct. 28th,
2008, from the Nov. 3rd, 2008, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Nov.
13th, 2008

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends 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 ---
"MIRAI NO KA" WA
"GENZAI NO IN" NI ARI.
"IMA" O KATSUNODA!
YUKI TO CHIE TO DANKETSU DE
DAIFUKUTOKU NO MIRAI O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO O GYOZEN MONO OBA SHOTEN ZENJIN TO ARUIWA OTOKO
TO NARI ARUIWA ONNA TO NARI KATACHI O KAE SAMAZAMA NI KUYO
SHITE TASUKU BESHI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 1445)

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