[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Feb. 4th + Daily Enc. Feb. 5th

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

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
My dearest members from the Hokuriku area*
with whom I share deep bonds of mentor and disciple!
Our time to fulfil the solemn pledge we made
at the time of kuon, (time without beginning)** is "right now"!
Our voices resounding with truth and justice,
now is the time to take concrete steps
and advance towards achieving complete victory!

* Region west of Tokyo on the Japan Sea side of Japan.
** Kuon Ganjo: http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realised this truth. The sutra's statement, 'Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers,' cannot be false in any way."

(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 217)
Selection source "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, February 4th, 2010

Friday, February 5th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) points out: 'Words can unite people.' Cheerful greetings are the first step in socialisation."

SGI Newsletter No. 7927, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 23: Chap. 1, The Future 38, translated Feb. 2nd, 2010

* 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---
SHITEI FUNI NO HOKURIKU YO!
WAGA KUON NO SEIGAN O
HATASU NO WA [KYO] DA!
SEIGI NO KOE O MO TAKARAKANI
IZA KANSHO NO TAIKOSHIN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKO NO SHUKUEN OIKITATTE KONDO NICHIREN GA DESHI TO NARI TAMAUKA SHAKA TAHO KOSO GOZONJI SORO RAME 'ZAIZAI SHOBUTSUDO JOYOSHIGUSHO' YOMO SORAGOTO SORAWAJI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1338)

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