[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho March 17th + Daily Enc. March 18th

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

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Be a person who is always appreciative of what goes on around you!
Never forget the kindness of those who support you!
The spirit to always repay one's debt of gratitude
gives us immeasurable strength!

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Muster your faith, and pray to this Gohonzon. Then what is there that cannot be achieved?'

(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 412)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 17th, 2010

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"With the Buddhist Law
that enables us to infinitely
change poison into medicine,
let us triumph without fail;
the heavenly deities will also protect us.

"The American futurist and social activist Dr. Hazel Henderson remarked with a smile: 'When someone tells me, [It can't be done,] I just become all the more determined to accomplish it.' To take action based on a lofty sense of purpose or mission can often be fraught with difficulty. But the more challenging the undertaking, the more we need to rouse our courage and make an all-out effort.

"...Do we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by difficulties, or do we fight back and triumph over them? This is the earnest struggle that we must wage both as individuals and as a society."

SGI Newsletter No. 7957, The Joyous Drama of 'Changing Poison into Medicine,' from the April 2010 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated March 16th, 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---
KANSHA NO HITO DE ARE!
SASAETE KURERU HITO NO
KOKORO O WASURERU NA!
HOON NO ICHINEN GA
MUGEN NO CHIKARA TO NARU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"AIKAMAETE GOSHINJIN O IDASHI KONO GOHONZON NI KINEN SESHIME TAMAE NANIGOTOKA JOJU SEZARUBEKI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1124)

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