[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 20th March To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 21st March Daily Enc.

* Here in Tokyo life gradually is getting back to "normal" but we have many challenges ahead and a new life style we are going to have to accept for a long time. Up north, in Tohoku, things are creeping forwards but the second "Tsunami" is now beginning to kick in, the insufficient rescue of those who have survived, the number of homeless is virtually beyond anyone's ability to look after, people, especially the elderly are in great need of medical and physical help, many are now dieing in the evacuation centres. Helpers & volunteers are working way beyond what they can cope with. Food also is just not around, many are living off one rice ball or piece of pastry for the day, if that. Donations are really needed which hopefully your local SGI organisation can you let you know about and will of course be gratefully appreciated.

NHK - national government TV - has now put up a click on its main web-site where you can find where people have moved to in especially the most devastated areas. It is constantly being updated so if you need to find anyone and cannot find them today, come back later and you may find they are there. You'll need Japanese software to read and input. Here is today's To My Friends...

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

Sunday, March 20th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
We are all eternal comrades advancing together
throughout the three existences towards kosen-rufu.*
We are indeed the SGI family that transcends birth and death.
Let's always take the time out to encourage one another,
and to advance together brimming with great strength!

* The SGI is truly a sublime gathering of the Buddha's children. It is itself "the assembly on the Holy Peak that continues in solemn state and has not yet disbanded."
The SGI is a gathering of Bodhisattvas of the Earth who, just as in the ceremony on Eagle Peak, have appeared in order to lead all people of the Latter Day to enlightenment and so fulfil their eternal vow. We are eternal comrades advancing together over the three existences toward kosen-rufu. (Lectures on the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters of the Lotus Sutra by Daisaku Ikeda, Vol. 3, page 129)

Sunday, March 20th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Since great slander already exists in our land, the great correct Law will spread without fail. What could any of you have to lament?."
(Great Evil and Great Good - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1119)
Selection source: "Yuki no Izumi", Seikyo Shimbun, March 20th, 2011

Monday, March 21st, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"' Jiro Abe, a well-known Japanese philosopher who was a native of the Tohoku region, asserted, "The greatest source of strength in any situation is philosophy."

"The unsurpassed humanistic philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism enables us to take the most noble and humanistic action."
- SGI President Ikeda's Message to the Members of Tohoku, March 18th, 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 ---
WARERA WA MINA
SANZE EIEN NO DOSHI
SHOJI FUNI NO KAZOKU NARI!
TOMODOMONI HAGEMASHI
CHIKARA ZUYOKU ZENSHIN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SUDENI DAIHOBO KUNI NI ARI DAISHOHO KANARAZU HIROMARU BESHI ONO ONO NANIOKA NAGEKASE TAMAU BEKI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1300)

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