[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho March 21st + Daily Enc. March 22nd

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

Saturday, March 21st, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"To have faith is the basis of Buddhism."*
Let's always try to advance with strong faith and conviction!
It's the strength of our faith that determines if we can
manifest the power of the Buddha and the power of the Law
in our life.**

*"The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon" - WND-I, page 832

** four powers -
http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=795

Saturday, March 21st, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Abutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is
Abutsu-bo himself. No other knowledge is purposeful. It is the treasure
tower adorned with the seven kinds of treasures--hearing the correct
teaching, believing it, keeping the precepts, engaging in meditation,
practising assiduously, renouncing one's attachments, and reflecting on
oneself."

(On the Treasure Tower - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page
229) Selection source: "Kyo no
Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 21st, 2009

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"To courageously take the initiative to reach out to others in dialogue; to
speak to others openly and honestly from the heart--such actions have the
fundamental power to break through barriers of prejudice and
misunderstanding."

SGI Newsletter No. 7739, 27TH SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING--PART
2 [OF 2], Building Bridges for Peace, from the March 10th, 2009, issue of
the Seikyo Shimbun, translated March 19th, 2009

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends & 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 ---
"BUPPO NO KONPON WA
SHIN O MOTTE MINAMOTO TO SU"
DAIKAKUSHIN DE IKO!
TSUYOKI ICHINEN KARA
BUTSURIKI HORIKI WA ARAWARERU

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHIKAREBA ABUTSUBO SANAGARA HOTO HOTO SANAGARA ABUTSUBO
KOREYORI HOKA NO SAIKAKU MUYAKU NARI MON SHIN KAI JO SHIN
SHA ZAN NO SHIPPO O MOTTE KAZARITARU HOTO NARI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 1304)

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