[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 24th Nov. To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 25th Nov. Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, November 24th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our fellow members in vice leadership roles
are the drive force of kosen-rufu.
In our organisation of the SGI, every single individual plays a leading role.
So let's all try to remember to praise and appreciate each other's efforts
and advance together based on the principle of "Many in body, one in mind."*

* Gosho: Many in body, one in mind, WND-1, pg 71, "If the spirit of many in body but one in mind prevails among the people, they will achieve all their goals, whereas if one in body but different in mind, they can achieve nothing remarkable."

Thursday, November 24th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you slacken in your resolve even a bit, devils will take advantage."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 997)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 24th, 2011

Friday, November 25th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Think of what can be done rather than worrying about what cannot'[1]—this was the personal motto of Dr. Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), the Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who sadly passed away on September 25 this year.
SGI Newsletter No. 8384, Our Brilliant Path To Victory, Youth Festivals for the Future—Part 1 [of 2], from the Oct. 8th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Nov. 22nd, 2011

[1] Wangari Muta Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), p. 125.

* 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 ---
FUKU YAKUSHOKU NO TOMO KOSO
KOFU HATTEN NO GENDORYOKU!
GAKKAI WA ZENNIN GA SHUYAKU DA.
MINA DE TATAEHAGEMASHIAI
ITADOSHIN NO DAIZENSHIN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TSUKIZUKI HIBINI TSUYORI TAMAE SUKOSHIMO TAYUMU KOKORO ARABA MA TAYORI O UBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1190)

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