[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 18th Jan. To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 19th Jan. Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all our fellow members and friends
who are struggling to find employment
amidst the harsh realities of the times --
never retreat from the battle front!
As long as you have the spirit to never be defeated,
you will surely break through any wall that stands in your way.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The deeper the roots, the more prolific the branches. The farther the source, the longer the stream."
(On Repaying Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 748)
Selection source: "Member's Experience", page 4, Seikyo Shimbun, January 18th, 2011

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Even towering Mount Sumeru began from a single speck of dust, and the vast ocean began from a single drop of dew. All things start from small steps or beginnings. This is the central theme of 'The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra.' As an old proverb says: 'One is the mother of ten thousand' (WND-1, 131). In this writing, we also find the words: 'One added to one becomes two, two becomes three, and so on to make ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or an asamkhya. Yet 'one' is the mother of all' (WND-1, 667). In the same way, the widespread propagation of the Mystic Law in the Latter Day began with the single person of Nichiren Daishonin."
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

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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
KIBISHIKI SHUSHOKU SENSEN
KAKAN NI IDOMU TOMO YO
DANJITE SHIRIZOKU NA!
MAKEJI DAMASHI ARU KAGIRI
KANARAZU YA KABE WA YABURERU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NE FUKAKEREBA EDA SHIGESHI MINAMOTO TOKEREBA NAGARE NAGASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 329)

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