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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 19th Jan. To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 20th Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The essential spirit and attitude of a leader for kosen-rufu
is to take concrete action.
Let's all advance with powerful momentum
based on chanting daimoku, taking action,
studying (the Daishonin's Buddhism) and speaking with people.
With absolutely boundless joy I depend on you to lead the way!

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds."
(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 4)
Selection source: "Member's Experience", page 4, Seikyo Shimbun, January 19th, 2011

Thursday, January 20th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"You are all challenging yourselves valiantly to realise great victories for kosen-rufu, by diligently studying Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, speaking with others, chanting daimoku, taking action, and going to meet people. Carrying out such activities for kosen-rufu as Soka Gakkai members is not only an important key to personal happiness, but is also the surest, truest, and most honourable way to cheerfully lead your parents, family members, friends, and others in your environment to genuine, lasting happiness.

"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'When the sun rises in the eastern sector of the sky, then all the skies over the great continent of Jambudvipa [the entire world]... will be illuminated because of the vast light that the sun possesses' (WND-1, 169). The Mystic Law is the light of the sun illuminating all life. No matter how dark the times, when Bodhisattvas of the Earth appear, chanting and spreading the daimoku of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, they will illuminate the community and the land in which they live with the vast light of hope."
SGI Newsletter No. 8141, SGI President Ikeda's Message, 46th SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING. Activities for Kosen-rufu Are the Surest Path to Happiness, from the Jan. 9th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Jan. 14th, 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 ---
KOFU NO "leader" WA
[KODO] GA TAMASHI DA!
INORI, UGOKI, MANABI, KATARI
IKIOIYOKU SUSUMIYUKE!
DAIKANKI NO SHIKI O TANOMU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"MATA SHUJO NO KOKORO KEGARUREBA DO MO KEGARE KOKORO KIYOKEREBA DO MO KIYOSHI TOTE JODO TO II EDO TO IUMO DO NI FUTATSU NO HEDATE NASHI TADA WARERA GA KOKORO NO ZENAKU NI YORUTO MIETARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 384)


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