[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Sep 11th + Daily Enc. Sep 12th

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

Friday, September 11th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
We're off to a fresh new start.
And a chance to take on new challenges.
All of us, who strive together to achieve the noble task
of spreading the Mystic Law far and wide, are certain
to accumulate boundless good fortune and benefit that will
brilliantly adorn our lives.

Friday, September 11th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In this chapter Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the foremost point he wished to convey to us. The Buddha preached the Lotus Sutra over a period of eight years, and eight characters sum up the message that he has left behind for living beings in this later age, the Latter Day of the Law. It is the passage that reads, 'Therefore, Universal
Worthy, if you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha' (chapter twenty-eight), particularly the eight characters that make up the end of the passage, 'you should rise and greet him,' etc."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 781, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 192) Selection source:
SGI President Ikeda's speech, Seikyo Shimbun, September 11th, 2009

Saturday, September 12th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Anyone who seeks to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime and carries out faith aimed at achieving human revolution will be able to establish a firmly grounded self. We can develop a state of life that allows us to actualise happiness for ourselves and others. We can forge ahead undaunted by any adversity and enhance our capacity for
creating value out of every situation. Faith in the Daishonin's Buddhism enables us to cultivate an inner state of absolute freedom, undefeated by any karmic challenge. It is the means by which we can polish our lives."

SGI Newsletter No. 7851, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [7] "The Supremacy of the Law"--Part 1 [of 3], The Lotus Sutra Is the "Great Ship" for the Enlightenment of All People, from the July 2009 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated Sep. 9th, 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 ---
ATARASHIKI SHUPPATSU DA!
ATARASHIKI TOSO DA!
MYOHORUFU NO
DAIIGYO NI IKIRU
DOSHI NO FUKUTOKU WA SANZEN.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO HON NO TOKI SAIJO DAIICHI NO SODEN ARI SHAKUSON
HACHIKANEN NO HOKEKYO O HACHIJI NI TODOMETE MATSUDAI NO
SHUJO NI YUZURI TAMAUNARI HACHIJI TOWA TOKI ONGO TONYO
KYOBUTSU NO MON NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 781)

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