[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 26th March To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 27th March Daily Enc.

* Here in Tokyo at the weekend the roads would normally be crowded with shoppers and people driving here and there but instead there are so few, maybe because they are trying to conserve gas/petrol, cutting back out of concern and respect for those people in the badly hit areas who now have next to nothing or worried about the rumoured nuclear fall-out from the reactors. Further north supplies are now finally getting through and requests for certain things have changed from food and water to such things as shampoo and sanitary goods.

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

Saturday, March 26th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Through sincere and caring dialogue with others,
let's expand our circles of friendship and trust
in our precious local communities!
It is the strength that we gain by supporting one another
that creates great hope for tomorrow.

Saturday, March 26th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 832)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's guidance, Seikyo Shimbun, March 26th, 2011

Sunday, March 21st, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The concept that the attitudes and actions of all living beings are clearly perceived by the Buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the universe is another way of saying that the impartial law of the causality of life applies to all."
SGI Newsletter No. 8187, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 24: Chap. 2, Vigilant Safeguarding 16, translated March 23rd, 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 NO TAIWA DE
AISURU CHIIKI NI
SHINRAI TO YUJO NO WA O!
SASAE AU CHIKARA GA
KIBO NO ASU O HIRAKU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO GOHONZON MATTAKU YOSO NI MOTOMURU KOTO NAKARE TADA WARERA SHUJO NO HOKEKYO O TAMOCHITE NANMYOHORENGEKYO TO TONAURU KYOCHU NO NIKUDAN NI OWASHIMASU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1244)

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