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

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

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To expand our network of people of goodwill is to
expand the number of people who can be happy in their lives.
By using our cheerful, warm and kind voices,
let's try to open the door to other people's hearts and
develop good and trust-worthy relationships with as many people
as we possibly can!

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a
fine sword. Worthies and sages are tested by abuse."

(Letter from Sado - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 303) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's
speech, Seikyo Shimbun, June 21st, 2009

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Both your voice
and mine
resounding powerfully
to the far reaches of the universe,
our lives shining.

"Shakyamuni Buddha was a person who initiated conversations. He didn't arrogantly
wait for others to greet him, but was always the first to greet others in a bright,
friendly manner, which made others open their hearts to him. He was never in the
least bit haughty or self-important. This kind of warm, humanistic behaviour is the
starting point of Buddhism as a living philosophy."

SGI Newsletter No. 7798, Bringing People Together through Dialogue, from the July
2009 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated June 18th, 2009

* 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 ---
ZENEN NO KAKUDAI WA
KOFUKU NO KAKUDAI DA
AKARUKU ATATAKANA KOE DE
KOKORO NO TOBIRA O HIRAKI
SHINRAI O HIROGEYUKE

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KUROGANE WA KITAI UTEBA TSURUGI TO NARU KENSHO WA MERI
SHITE KOKOROMIRU NARUBESHI"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 958)

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