[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho May 12th + Daily Enc. May 13th

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

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Winning over all manner of adversities with great force, persistence and fortitude - herein lies the true character,
the trademark of the mighty Hyogo region!*
You are indeed the powerhouse, the driving force that leads our ever-victorious Kansai to victory.
Be the epicentre, generating thousands of surging waves of friendship (across the whole country.)

* Hyogo is a prefecture located in the Kansai region of Japan.

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
The sutra states, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers," (and "If one stays close to the teachers of the Law, one will speedily gain the bodhisattva way.)
(The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 747)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May 12th, 2010

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Buddhism is a struggle to be victorious. It is by defeating the three obstacles and four devils and the three powerful enemies that one proves oneself to be a genuine votary of the Lotus Sutra."

SGI Newsletter No. 7990, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [15] 'On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings'--Part 3, Waging a Struggle of Profound Compassion amid Great Obstacles, from the March 2010 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated May 7th, 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 ---
GYAKKYO NI UCHIKATSU
FUKUTSU NO SOKOJIKARA KOSO
DAIHYOGO NO SHINKOCCHO DA!
JOSHO NO DENGENCHI KARA
YUJO NO SENPA BANPA O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KYO NI IWAKU [ITARU TOKORO NO MOROMORO NO BUTSUDO NI TSUNE NI SHI TO TOMO NI SHO ZEN"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1056)

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