[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 24th March To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 25th March Daily Enc.

* Today here in Tokyo and in various places not only up north but along the eastern coast line of Japan from Tokyo up, we are still experiencing lots of earthquakes some you can clearly feel, often waking you if they are at night and others you have to look carefully to see if something is moving but it is making many people feel physically sick and of course is understandably making people very anxious. Scamsters are beginning to surface now, pretending to be relief donation collectors not only in person but also on the Internet - please be careful to double check bank account numbers & web-sites before sending anything. Also yesterday's government volunteer web-site address was slightly wrong, sorry! It should be www.tasukeaijapan.jp.... Here's today's To My Friends...

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

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Each and every day is a page
in the history of our human revolution.
Let us always remember that our practice
is the source of boundless hope.
Starting from here, from right now,
let us advance in perfect unity with each other!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million of ryo of gold."
(On Prolonging One's Life Span - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 955)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 24th, 2011

Friday, March 25th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Myo means to revive, that is, to return to life.' (WND-1, 149)
From 'The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra.'

"When we live our lives based on faith in the Daishonin's Buddhism, then no matter what our situation or where we may find ourselves, it is possible for us to make a fresh beginning from there, to open the way to a future of limitless hope from that moment.

"Buddhism enables us to revive our spirits and revitalise our communities, allowing us to create happy lives without fail and help others do the same. That is the purpose of Buddhism."
SGI Newsletter No. 8185, LIVING THE GOSHO: (1) Faith in the Daishonin's Buddhism Is a Source of Limitless Hope.
Translated March 22nd 2011, from the March 19th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun

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

--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
ICHINICHI ICHINICHI GA
NINGEN KAKUMEI NO REKISHI DA.
SHINJIN TO WA MUGEN NO KIBO!
IMA KARA KOKO KARA
"Scrum" KATAKU ZENSHIN!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"INOCHI TO MOSU MONOWA ISSHIN DAIICHI NO CHINPO NARI ICHINICHI NARITOMO KOREO
NOBURUNARABA SENMANRYO NO KOGANE NIMO SUGITARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 986)

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