[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 4th Dec. To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 5th Dec. Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, December 4th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's be sure to express the utmost respect and admiration
to all of our fellow members,
who are so selflessly dedicating themselves to achieving kosen-rufu!
Those who are sincere and earnest in encouraging others
naturally shine with happiness and success.
Let's all advance together, proving that
"it is the heart that is important."**

*"Working for people's happiness is something everyone can do, regardless of circumstances. ... In the end, it comes down to the effort to engage with and encourage others. ... Encouraging others enables us to fully grasp the meaning of our lives and experience enduring happiness. ... This is a revolution that starts here, now--in the heart of every one of us."
(Excerpted from Embracing the Future--Essays by Daisaku Ikeda published by The Japan Times)
**"The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra," WND-I, p. 1000

Saturday, December 4th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect."

(New Year's Gosho - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1137)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 4th, 2010

Sunday, December 5th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The empowerment of the people, of ordinary citizens, represents the most crucial source of hope for our world today.

"Provost Langley is a renowned specialist in political science and international relations. Citing the maxim of the statesman Edmund Burke (1729-97) that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for men of good will to stand idly by, he has declared: 'When a single individual awakens to the power of the human spirit, this is something that no tyrant can silence or restrain.'"

SGI Newsletter No. 8112, SGI President Ikeda's Acceptance Speech, The Empowerment of the People, a Source of Hope for the World. On the conferral of an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on SGI President Ikeda by the University of Massachusetts Boston, held at the Soka Gakkai Mentors Hall in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, on November 21st, 2010. This award marked the SGI leader and Soka Schools founder's milestone 300th academic honour. In Japan to bestow the award and sign an academic exchange agreement with Soka University was a delegation from the American university, including Chancellor J. Keith Motley, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Winston E. Langley and Associate Provost and Director of International and Transnational Affairs Eunsook Hyun. From the November 22nd, 2010, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Dec. 1st, 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 DOSHI O
SAIDAI NI HOME TATAEYO!
TOMO O HAGEMASERU HITO NI
KOFUKU TO SHORI WA HIKARU.
"KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU" DE SUSUME!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SAIWAI WA KOKORO YORI IDETE WARE O KAZARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1492)

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