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Monday, November 8, 2010

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] Nov. 8th To My Friends & Daily Gosho & Nov. 8th - 14th Words of the Week

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

Monday, November 8th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
What is most important in our activities is that we make
a wholehearted effort to raise each individual, on a personal basis,
giving each one of them the utmost of encouragement
and support possible.
That is what kosen-rufu is all about.
Let's make our own district, block, group, etc.
into the greatest solidarity of capable people!

Monday, November 8th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Today there are people who have faith in the Lotus Sutra. The belief of some is like fire while that of others is like water. When the former listen to the teachings, their passion flares up like fire, but as time goes on, they tend to discard their faith. To have faith like water means to believe continuously without ever regressing."

(The Two Kinds of Faith - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 899)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 8th, 2010

November 8th-14th, 2010
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
The Daishonin encourages us,
"Teach others to the best of your ability,
even if it is only a single sentence or phrase."*
Let's engage in hope-filled conversations
that will open up a way to the future.
Come young people, rally forth!
Join in the celebrations of our glorious 80th anniversary of
the Youth Culture Festival/Conference.**

*"The True Aspect of All Phenomena" - WND-I, page 386 **This commemorative meeting was held on Nov. 3rd in Tokyo. The rerun is planned to be shown by satellite at SGI centres throughout Japan this week. (More information can be checked out at...
http://www.sgi.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2010/soka-gakkai-buddhist-association-celebrates-80-years-of-empowerment-for-peace.html)


* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends, Words of the Week 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 ---
"HITORI" O SODATE
"HITORI" O HAGEMASU.
SOREGA KOSENRUFU DA!
WAGA CHIKU, "block" NI
JINZAI NO DAIJO O KIZUKE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SOMOSOMO IMA NO TOKI HOKEKYO O SHINZURU HITO ARI ARUIWA HI NO GOTOKU SHINZURU HITO MO ARI ARUIWA MIZU NO GOTOKU SHINZURU HITO MO ARI CHOMON SURU TOKI WA MOETATSU BAKARI OMOEDOMO TOZAKARI NUREBA SUTSURU KOKORO ARI MIZU NO GOTOKU TO MOSUWA ITSUMO TAISEZU SHINZURU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1544)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
"ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO
KATARASE TAMAU BESHI"
MIRAI O HIRAKU KIBO TAIWA O!
HARE NO SEINEN BUNKA SOKAI E
WAKODO YO TSUDOI KITARE!


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