[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Jan 19th + Words of the Week Jan 19th - 25th

Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and
"Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Monday, January 19th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
When we go out, take a bath, etc.,
let's be careful about the sudden change in temperature.
Let's make sure to remind ourselves that "Hey we're going out into the cold,
we need to take all the right precautions."
Our health is also protected by our strong determination.

* We have said this before, but it is especially important
for the elderly to be careful in cold weather when they go
from a heated room into a cold room or go from indoors to
outdoors. The former is of particular concern in Japan,
where most homes are not centrally heated and rooms, such
as the kitchen and bathroom tend to be very cold in
winter. (Humanism and the Art of Medicine by Daisaku
Ikeda, page 194)

Monday, January 19th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you
lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet
tinder. Spur yourself to muster the power of faith."

(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of
Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1000) Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, January 19th, 2009

January 19th-25th, 2009
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
Let's chant daimoku to achieve kosen-rufu, sincerely
and seriously.
Let's be perfectly united with the spirit of "many in
body but one in mind."
Let's continually base our actions on the selfless spirit
of "never begrudging our bodies or lives."*
What is important is to have the same faith, the same prayer, as our
mentor, committing ourselves together to the same cause.

* fushaku shinmyo (Japanese) - "never begrudging our
bodies or lives" as in the passage "But although it will
be difficult to teach and convert them, we will summon up
the power of great patience and will read and recite this
sutra, embrace, preach and copy it, offering it many kinds
of alms and never begrudging our bodies or lives."
("Encouraging Devotion" chapter of the Lotus Sutra)

** The ultimate meaning of faith is to treasure
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo even more highly than our own lives.
It is to devote ourselves entirely to achieving the
widespread propagation of the Mystic Law. Concretely
speaking, this means advancing together with the SGI,
thoroughly protecting the SGI, and practicing together
with the SGI, in both times of hardship and times of joy.
Apart from the SGI, there is no kosen-rufu of the Mystic
Law. (The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, Volume 3, page 146)

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends, Daily Gosho and Words of the Week 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 ---
GAISHUTSU YA NYUYOKUJI NO
ONDOSA NI CHUI!
"SAMUI TOKORO NI DERU" TO
ISHIKI SHITE UGOKO.
KENKO MO ICHINEN KARA!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"IKANI NICHIREN INORI MOSUTOMO FUSHIN NARABA NURETARU
HOKUCHI NI HI O UCHIKAKURUGA GOTOKU NARUBESHI HAGEMI O
NASHITE GOJO NI SHINRIKI O IDASHI TAMAUBESHI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 1192)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
KOSEN RUFU NO INORI O!
ITAI DOSHIN NO DANKETSU O!
FUSHAKU SHINMYO NO KODO O!
SONO KONPON GA
SHITEI FUNI NO SHINJIN DA.

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