[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 21st March To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 21st March - 27th March Words of the Week

* Here in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures we prepare for many of the refugees to arrive, opening up facilities that had been closed down or had not been used due to a decrease in the Japanese population. Up north many people are very reluctant to leave what they call "home" though, especially those who have lost loved ones and still cannot find them. People are spread out all over the place and in many cases they cannot find each other as they have no internet connections or phones and don't know where to look. Rescue operations are still being hampered by the tremendous distances they have to cover (500 kilometres and more) and many many roads are still blocked.

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

Monday, March 21st, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All of our fellow members around the world
are earnestly chanting daimoku for us,
watching over us, seeing how we stand back up.
With the indestructible unity of the SGI,
let's open up the way to a hopeful future.
Right now is that very time!

Monday, March 21st, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I have been ceaselessly praying for your sake to the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha, and the god of the sun, for I am convinced that you are a person who can inherit the soul of the Lotus Sutra."
(The Hero of the World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 839)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 21st, 2011

March 21st - 27th, 2011
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
"Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life,"*
let's constantly chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, now more than ever
Through practicing this faith that enables us
to overcome all obstacles and hardships,
let's show great actual proof
that we can definitely change poison into medicine.
Let's advance together towards establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land!

*"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?
Strengthen your power of faith more than ever." - "Happiness in This World", WND-I, page 681

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

--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
ZENSEKAI NO DOSHI GA
INORI MITSUMETE IRU.
SOKA NO FUMETSU NO DENKETSU DE
KIBO NO MIRAI O HIRAKE!
IMA GA SONO TOKI DA!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TONO NO ONKOTO OBA HIMANAKU HOKEKYO SHAKABUTSU NITTEN NI MOSU NARI SONO YUE WA HOKEKYO NO INOCHI O TSUGU HITO NAREBA TO OMOU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1169)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
KURAKU TOMONI OMOI AWASETE
DAIMOKU MATA DAIMOKU DA.
NAN O NORIKOERU SHINJIN DE
HENDOKU IYAKU NO JISSHO O!
RISSHO ANKOKU NO ZENSHIN O!

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