[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] August 18th To My Friends & August 19th Daily Enc.

 

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

Thursday, August 18th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
I am counting on the Byakuren* group
to expand the flowers of dialog all around!
With the sprit and life force of joy and enthusiasm
I hope that you will take take the lead,
running along the front-lines and paving the way for our solidarity of the Kayo-kai**.

* SGI's Young Women's group that helps welcoming and guiding members at meeting places.
** Young Women's division

Thursday, August 18th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."
(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 790, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 214)

Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, August 18th, 2011

Friday, August 19th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The ultimate power resides within us human beings. We have the power to stand up for the happiness of humanity. We have the power to believe in and create a bright, hope-filled tomorrow."

SGI Newsletter No.8294, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teaching for Victory, translated August 3rd, 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 ---
BYAKUREN "group" GA
TAIWA NO HANAZONO O KAKUDAI!
KANKI TO YAKUDO NO SEIMEI DE
KAYO NO scrum NO
SENTO O KAKEYO!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSA NO SANJIN NENNEN NI OKORU NARI IWAYURU NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 790)

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