[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Oct. 29th + Daily Enc. Oct 30th

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

Friday, October 29th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
How beautiful it is
to spend one's youth devoted to activities for kosen-rufu.
When we sincerely chant daimoku for the sake of our friends' happiness
and strive to talk with them about practicing this Buddhism,
our hearts will certainly overflow with joy and happiness!

Friday, October 29th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The wonderful means of truly putting an end to the physical and spiritual obstacles of all living beings is none other than Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."

(The Wonderful Means of Surmounting Obstacles - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 842) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 29th, 2010

Saturday, October 30th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Shakyamuni instructed: 'You must spread [the Lotus Sutra] abroad widely throughout Jambudvipa [the entire world] and never allow it to be cut off' [LSOC23, 330] (WND-1, 398). And the Daishonin declared: 'It is certain that widespread propagation of the Law will eventually be achieved throughout Jambudvipa [the entire world]' (GZ, 816). As these words indicate, the realisation of the widespread propagation of the Law--or, kosen-rufu--throughout the globe was the sincere wish of both Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin.

"Seven centuries after the Daishonin's birth (in 1222), in a time of brutal war and conflict in an age described in the sutras as 'the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law,' the Soka Gakkai's founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and his disciple Josei Toda revived the true lifeblood of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, which was on the brink of being lost.

"As disciples directly inheriting their legacy, we have followed their example of selfless and ungrudging dedication to propagating the Law and fought our hardest for the happiness of those whose lives were steeped in pain and suffering.

"We, the mentors and disciples of Soka, have encountered untold slander and abuse, intense hatred and jealousy, as well as malicious attempts to disrupt the unity of our harmonious body of practitioners. But throughout all, we have remained unperturbed and undefeated, having been thoroughly prepared by the Daishonin's warnings that such obstacles are inevitable. The greater the persecutions and hardships we have faced, the more fiercely our hearts have blazed with lionlike courage."
SGI Newsletter No. 8095, 43RD SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING, Leave Behind a Wonderful Record of Achievement, from the Oct. 25th, 2010, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Oct. 26th, 2010

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends & 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 ---
KOFU NI HASHIRU
SEISHUN WA UTSUKUSHII!
TOMO NO KOFUKU O INORI
TOMO NO TAMENI KATAREBA
KOKORO WA KANKI NI AFURERU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHINJITSU ISSAI SHUJO SHIKISHIN NO RUNAN O TODOMURU HIJUTSU WA TADA NAN-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1170)

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