[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Feb. 17th + Daily Enc. Feb 18th

*Apologies for the delay today.

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

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
History is made in small gatherings!
It is important that we value the presence of each participant,
rising and greeting them from afar and showing them the same respect we
would a Buddha.*
Warmly welcoming and sincerely applauding members,
(for the efforts they made to be able to come or contribute to a meeting,)
let us create waves of appreciation and joy!

* "The Fourteen Slanders", WND-1, Page 757, "Even an ignorant person can
obtain blessings by serving someone who expounds the Lotus Sutra. No matter
if he is a demon or an animal, if someone proclaims even a single verse or
phrase of the Lotus Sutra, you must respect him as you would the Buddha.
This is what the sutra means when it says, "You should rise and greet him
from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha."You should
respect one another as Shakyamuni and Many Treasures did at the ceremony in
the "Treasure Tower" chapter."

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It seems to me that on the path to attain Buddhahood it may invariably be
when one has done something like lay down one's life that one becomes a
Buddha."

(Banishment to Sado - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 202)
Selection source: President Ikeda's speech at the Headquarters Leaders
Meeting held on February 11th, 2009 and covered in the Seikyo Shimbun of
February 17th, 2009.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"If we let opportunities slip by because of indecision, we are likely to
lose even struggles that we could have won. A delayed response can even lead
to serious setbacks or defeats. This is a golden rule that applies in all
things."

SGI Newsletter No. 7714, JOINT CONFERENCE--PART 3 [OF 4], Build a Strong
Self through Faith. (At a joint conference for representatives of the
Doctors Division and the nurses groups of the women's and young women's
divisions, the Shirakaba-kai and Shirakaba Group, held at the Nagano
Training Centre, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 9th, 2008), from the Aug. 17th,
2008, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Feb. 17th, 2009

* 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---
CHIISANA TSUDOI KARA
REKISHI WA TSUKURARERU!
[HOTOKE O UYAMAU GA GOTOKU]
SANKASHA O TATAE
KANKI NO BANPA O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"(HOTOKE NI NARU MICHI WA KANARAZU) SHINMYO O SUTERU HODO NO KOTO ARITE KOSO
HOTOKE NI NARI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 891)

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