[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 11th April To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 11th to 17th April Words of the Week

* Here in Tokyo...we had another serious quake today and we've been told to possibly expect similar ones in the next 24 hours. Everyone is OK though. Up north again this last earthquake has killed one person and reports are still coming in of injuries. Power outages are suddenly occurring where the earthquakes are more severe but power is restored quite quickly afterwards - 20 or 30 minutes. In Fukushima where the crippled nuclear power station is, the government has conservatively increased the areas people must evacuate from as higher radiation readings are occurring. When these people will be able to return to their property is unknown and serious concerns are being voiced about how to look after farm animals and crops when the people are required to leave. The Soka Gakkai has started a "Delivery - Discussion Meeting" service...people who would like to be visited and have mini-discussion meetings can now phone for one and local leaders will come to visit them in small vans in the more badly hit areas or where people have been told to stay in doors. Here's today's TMF...and more...

Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Monday, April 11th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
With a heart like that of warm glowing sunshine,
let's cultivate those flowers of friendship
and bring them to full bloom.
Let's achieve one crowning victory after another!

Monday, April 11th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"At first one may seem to have faith in the Lotus Sutra, but it is hard to maintain that faith to the last. Water, for example, may be stirred by the wind, or blossoms may lose their hue with the fading of the morning dew. How, then, have you been able to persist in your faith up until today? It must be thanks entirely to the blessings you have acquired in previous existences, and to the care bestowed on you by Shakyamuni Buddha. How heartening is that thought, how heartening indeed!"
(The Buddha Resides in a Pure Heart - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.2, page 885)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's guidance, Seikyo Shimbun, April 11th, 2011

April 11th-17th, 2011
---- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
It is absolutely certain that the Daishonin is praising and admiring
all of our struggles and efforts that we are making
for the cause of kosen-rufu.
All the good fortune and benefit that we have accumulated
by dedicating ourselves so earnestly to achieving all our goals and targets
will last for eternity.
By winning successive victories for the sake of the common people
let us cast a ray of great hope over all the people of Japan.

* 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 ---
SA TAIYO NO KOKORO DE
YUKO NO HANA O
MANKAI NI SAKASEYO!
SHORI SHORI NO
EIKAN O TAKARAKA NI!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO WA HAJIME WA SHINZURU YO NAREDOMO NOCHI TOGURU KOTO KATASHI TATOEBA MIZU NO KAZE NI UGOKI HANA NO IRO NO TSUYU NI UTSURU GA GOTOSHI NANTO SHITE IMAMADE WA TAMOTASE TAMAUZO KORE HITOE NI ZENSHO NO KURIKI NO UE SHAKABUTSU NO MAMORI TAMAU KA TANOMOSHISHI TANOMOSHISHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1395)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
TOTOKI MINASAMA NO DAIFUNTO O
DAISHONIN GA GOSHOSAN.
TATAKATTA KUDOKU WA EIEN NARI.
MINSHU NO RENZOKU SHORI DE
NIHON NI KIBO O TAIKO O!

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