[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho May 4th + Words of the Week May 4th - 10th

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

Monday, May 4th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The strength of our life force manifests itself in our voices.
Let's therefore use our courageous voices for the cause of justice
and make them echo all over the world,
and so help as many people as we can to hear
about this Buddhism and its philosophy!

Monday, May 4th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Rather than offering up ten thousand prayers for remedy,
it would be better simply to outlaw this one evil."

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the
Land - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 15)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May
4th, 2009

May 4th-10th, 2009
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
The essence of the Lotus Sutra is the spirit of
'shakubuku' - sharing the philosophy
of Nichiren Buddhism with others*.
Let's muster up the courage to refute those beliefs and
tenets that obviously misguide people to unhappiness and
suffering,
and speak out the truth confidently and with conviction!
This is the great strength of the SGI.

* shakubuku -
http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1974

* 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 ---
SEIMEI NO CHIKARA WA
"KOE" NI ARAWARERU!
SEIGI NO DAIONJO O
TENCHI NI HIBIKASE
BUTSUEN O HIROGEYO

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHIKAZU KA NO BANKI O SHUSEN YORIWA KONO IKKYO O KINZEN
NIWA"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 24)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
HOKEKYO NO SHINZUI WA
SHAKUBUKU SEISHIN DE ARU.
AKU O HASHAKU NO YUKI DE
SHINJITSU O DODO TO SAKEBE!
KOREGA GAKKAI NO TSUYOSA DA.

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