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Monday, June 15, 2009

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] Words of the Week June 15th - 21st, Daily Gosho June 15th + Daily Enc. June 16th

* We had a national press holiday here in Japan today, fancy a day without a
newspaper! Anyhow we held on to "Words of the Week" to cover the gap, hope that is
OK!

A translation of President Ikeda's "Words of the Week"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

June 15th-21st, 2009
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
We cannot express enough how grateful we are for all the noble steps that our
uncrowned heroes and heroines take to deliver the Seikyo Shimbun
and all our other SGI publications!
Let's try to follow in their footsteps and take courageous and decisive steps for the
sake of kosen-rufu.
In life those who do the "leg work" will quite naturally lead victorious lives.

Monday, June 15th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it,
though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might
cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it
could never come about that the prayers of the Lotus Sutra
would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1,
page 345) Selection source: Living Buddhism, Seikyo
Shimbun, June 15th, 2009

APOLOGIES, June 12th's Daily Gosho had a bit missing! Thank you Elaine for pointing
it out! It should have read...

"A sword is useless in the hands of a coward. The mighty
sword of the Lotus Sutra must be wielded by one courageous
in faith. Then one will be as strong as a demon armed with
an iron staff."

(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 412) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shimbun, June 12th, 2009

Monday, June 16th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mentors believe in their disciples. And it is precisely because of their immense
faith and hope in their disciples that they don't go easy on them, that they train
them thoroughly and are strict with them. Disciples who respond wholeheartedly to
their mentor's belief in them can bring forth immeasurable power and ability. This is
the rhythm of mentor and disciple. It is a symphony of victory."

SGI Newsletter No. 7794, THE LIGHT OF THE CENTURY OF HUMANITY, The Vow of the Ikeda
Kayo-kai, from the June 3rd, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated June
12th, 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

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
"MUKAN NO TOMO" NO
TOTOKI AYUMI NI KANSHA!
WARERA MO UTTE DEYO!
JINSEI WA KEIKAINI
ARUITA HITO GA KATSU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURUTOMO OOZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA
ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI
IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA
ARUBEKARAZU"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)

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