[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 5th April To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 6th April Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's put our whole heart into what we do today.
The "results that will be manifested in the future"
are dependant on the "causes that exist in the present"*
With the determination to see things through to the very end,
let us win, no matter what,
on the grand stage of our respective missions!

*Gosho - The Opening of the Eyes - WND-279, "If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present."

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 997)
Selection source: Gosho for April, Seikyo Shimbun, March 29th, 2011

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Many think that happiness is taking it easy, never working hard, and enjoying wealth and social status, recognition and success without any special effort. Some flatter and cosy up to the rich and powerful in hopes of achieving these things. Others adopt a policy of expedience and will do anything to get ahead. Still others envy and resent those who have established themselves in the world and scheme to bring about the downfall of those whom they perceive to be more successful than they are. All of these patterns of behaviour are based on the delusion that happiness resides in the external world, outside of us.

"Nichiren Daishonin states: 'If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand practices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain. It is like the case of a poor man who spends night and day counting his neighbour's wealth but gains not even half a coin' (WND-1, 3).

"The path to happiness and attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime lies, fundamentally, in polishing one's character and manifesting the life-condition of the Buddha and bodhisattva from within. It's vital to build a strong, stalwart, unshakable self, like a towering mountain."
SGI Newsletter No. 8198, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 24: Chap. 2, Vigilant Safeguarding 27, translated March 31st, 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 ---
KYO O ZENRYOKU DE!
[MIRAI NO KA] WA
[GENZAI NO IN] NI ARI.
WAGA SHIMEI NO BUTAI DE
NEBARI ZUYOKU KATE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ONO-ONO SHISHIO NO KOKORO O TORI IDASHITE IKANI HITO ODOSU TOMO OZURU KOTO NAKARE SHISHIO WA HYAKUJI NI OJIZU SHISHI NO KO MATA KAKU NO GOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1190)

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