[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 10th March To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 11th March Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, March 10th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Gosho propels us to 'simply make up our minds'*
For the sake of our friends and fellow members,
for the sake of our human revolution,
let us not cower, but instead
let us courageously speak out (for the sake of kosen-rufu)!

*Gosho - Reply to Yasaburo, WND-1, page 829. "You must be firmly resolved. Do not begrudge your fief; do not think of your wife and children. And do not depend on others. You must simply make up your mind."

Thursday, March 10th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"When an evil ruler in consort with priests of erroneous teachings tries to destroy the correct teaching and do away with a man of wisdom, those with the heart of a lion king are sure to attain Buddhahood."

(Letter from Sado - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 302)
Selection source: "Watashi no chikai", Seikyo Shimbun, Mar 10th, 2011

Friday, March 11th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As the Japanese writer Saneatsu Mushanokoji (1885-1976) wrote: 'We should be more concerned about what cannot be seen than by what can be seen.'

"Working wholeheartedly behind the scenes to support kosen-rufu and protect the Soka Gakkai is a most noble form of Buddhist practice."
SGI Newsletter No. 8178, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 24: Chap. 2, Vigilant Safeguarding 5, translated March 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 ---
[TADA HITOE NI
OMOI KIRU BESHI]
TOMO NO KOFUKU NO TAME
WAGA NINGEN KAKUMEI NO TAME
YUKI NO KOE O HANATE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"AKUO NO SHOHO O YABURU NI JAHO NO SORA GA KATODO O NASHITE CHISHA O
USHINAWAN TOKIWA SHISHIO NO GOTOKU NARU KOKORO O MOTERU MONO KANARAZU
HOTOKE NI NARUBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 957)

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