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Sunday, January 16, 2011

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 16th Jan. To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 17th Jan Daily Enc.

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

Sunday, January 16th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Now is the chance for us to talk with more people
and develop new friendships!
It's warm heart-to-heart conversations that
are very often than not the catalyst for changes in society.
Come, let us summon up our courage and make every effort to try!

Sunday, January 16th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"However, even a stranger, if you open up your heart to him, may be willing to lay down his life for you."
(On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page )
Selection source: "Suntetsu", Seikyo Shimbun, January 16th, 2011

Monday, January 17th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Now is the time for us to make a fresh departure. On the grand stage of worldwide kosen-rufu that encompasses all humanity, let us challenge ourselves afresh, each determined to be the single speck of dust that marks the beginning of a new towering Mount Sumeru or the single drop of dew that spells the start of a new great ocean (cf. WND-1, 672)."
SGI Newsletter No. 8139, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [22] "The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra." Personal Initiative Is the Soka Gakkai's Founding Spirit,from the November 2010 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated Jan. 8th, 2011

* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html

--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
ATARASHII YUJO O MUSUBU
TAIWA NO "chance" TORAI!
KOKORO KAYOU KATARAI KOSO
SHAKAI O KAERU CHIKARA DA.
YUKI DE UTTE DEYO!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TANIN NAREDOMO KATARAI NUREBA INOCHI NIMO KAWARU ZOKASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1132)


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