[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Dec. 13th + Daily Enc. Dec. 14th

* We have a Japanese press holiday tomorrow so we'll hold on to "Words of the Week" to cover the gap.

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

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
one of Germany's greatest writers,
inspires us to live happily and positively.
Brimming with "the greatest of all joys"*
--this is indeed what living is all about.

*"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."
- The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 212

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Buddhism teaches that, when the Buddha nature manifests itself from within, it will receive protection from without."

(The Three Kinds of Treasure - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 848)
Selection source: SGI Study Department Chief Katsuji Saito's lecture at the SGI study conference held on Nov. 13th, 2009, in Tokyo, Seikyo
Shimbun, Dec. 13th, 2009

Monday, December 14th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Courage. We need courage to meet and interact with all kinds of people and nurture ties of friendship with them. We need courage to be good sons and daughters to our parents, too. Courage is crucial in all endeavours."

SGI Newsletter No. 7892, JOINT YOUTH DIVISION AND STUDENT DIVISION GENERAL MEETING, The Efforts of Youth Will Become a Golden Bridge of Victory, from the Nov. 2nd, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Dec. 11th, 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 ---
IKIIKITO
JINSEI O IKIYO!
KORE GA DAIBUNGO (Goethe) NO OSHIE.
"KANKI NO NAKANO DAIKANKI"
KORE GA WARERA NO JINSEI DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"BUPPO NO NAKANI NAIKUNGEGO TO MOSU OOINARU DAIJI ARITE
SHURON NITE SORO"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1170)

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