[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Feb. 22nd + Words of the Week Feb 22nd- 28th

Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Good morning!"
Let's start each day by giving a really refreshing greeting.
My dear friends,
let's win in the morning!

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understand for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been the Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho zenshu, page 788, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 211)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, Feb. 22nd, 2010

February 22nd-28th, 2010
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
Men's Division leaders,
stand up as 'men of courage'.*
Be strong, be brave!
Let our minds be profound and wise!
And together let's make progress each and every day.

*"Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage." - "The Selection of the Time",
WND-I, page 558

* 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 ---
"OHAYO GOZAIMASU!"
SUGASUGASHII AISATSU DE
ICHINICHI O SHUPPATSU SHIYO!
KIMIYO ASA NI KATE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O
SUNAWACHI DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA
KANKI NO NAKA NO DAIKANKI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 788)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
SONEN "leader" WA
"JOBU NO KOKORO" DE TATSU.
TSUYOKU YUKAN DE ARE!
FUKAKU SOMEI DE ARE!
ICHINICHI ICHINICHI ZENSHIN DA.

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