[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 29th Sep. To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 30th Sep. Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, September 29th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
I am counting on our leaders to be role models,
always committed and engaged in widely spreading this philosophy,
always ready to offer encouraging personal guidance in faith.
It is the strenuous efforts that you make to pave the way
that encourages our fellow members to enthusiastically follow on.

Thursday, September 29th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Myo means to revive, that is, to return to life."

(The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 149)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, September 29th, 2011

Friday, September 30th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Bodhisattvas of the Earth appear in the Lotus Sutra. In a broader sense, they are hope-filled individuals who vibrantly emerge from the earth of the ordinary people—individuals who, even amid the darkest confusion and chaos, continue to believe in the positive potential of humanity and the ultimate triumph of truth and justice.

"Precisely because of the growing sense of powerlessness and deadlock that characterizes the present times, we need to awaken to and summon forth our inner life-force as Bodhisattvas of the Earth."
SGI Newsletter No. 8337, Our Brilliant Path To Victory, The Vow of August 24—Part 2 [of 2], from the August 25th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Sep. 27th, 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 ---
"Leader" MIZUKARA GA
GUKYO YA KOJIN SHIDO NI
MASSAKI NI TORIKUMU NO DA!
HISSHI DE MICHI O HIRAITE KOSO
DOSHI WA ISAMI TUZUKU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"MYO TOWA SOSEI NO GI NARI SOSEI TO MOSUWA YOMIGAERU GI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 947)

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