[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho July 16th + Daily Enc. July 17th

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

Thursday, July 16th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The great passion and enthusiasm of young people
has the power to transform the nature of our communities
and open up the future in a very important way!
Oh young champions of kosen rufu,
now is the time for you to set your targets high and take on grand new challenges!

Thursday, July 16th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to
spring."

(Winter Always Turns to Spring - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 536)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, July 16th, 2009

Friday, July 17th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In the realm of Buddhism, teachers or mentors in faith seek to enable their
disciples to achieve the same life-state as they--no, they wish to foster disciples
who will be even better people than they are. The love and compassion that mentors
feel for their disciples are loftier than the heavens and deeper than the
sea--infinitely loftier and deeper than the disciples imagine.

"When disciples firmly resolve to live up to the aspirations of their mentor and
chant and strive earnestly to do so, the same strength as their mentor will well
forth in their lives. This shared commitment of mentor and disciple is the essence of
Buddhism.

"Nichiren Daishonin writes to the Sage Nichimyo, one of his female disciples:

"'Bound [though] we common mortals are by earthly desires, we can instantly attain
the same virtues as [the lord of teachings] Shakyamuni Buddha, for we receive all the
benefits that he accumulated. The [Lotus Sutra] reads, "Hoping to make all persons
equal to me, without any distinction between us [LS2, 36]."' (WND-1, 323)

"This is a very profound teaching. Through the beneficial power of the Mystic Law, we
ordinary people who are burdened with problems and sufferings can, just as we are,
bring our lives to shine with the supreme brilliance of Buddhahood. Such is the
wonderful, infinitely compassionate teaching of the Daishonin, the Buddha of the
Latter Day of the Law."

SGI Newsletter No. 7819, THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN AND THE MENTOR-DISCIPLE
RELATIONSHIP [8] Enabling All People to Attain the Same Life-State as the Buddha,
from the March 7th, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shinbun, translated July 15th, 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---
SEINEN NO DAI JONETSU GA
CHIIKI O KAERU
MIRAI O HIRAKU!
WAKAKI TOSHI YO
ATARASHIKI DAI CHOSEN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO O SHINZURU HITO WAS FUYU NO GOTOSHI FUYU WA KANARAZU HARU TO NARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1253)

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