[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 27th Dec. To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 28th Dec. Daily Enc.

SGI President Ikeda's essay "Learning about Dignity" was published in "The Japan Times" on Dec. 23rd, 2011. Click on the following address to see the article

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20111223di.html

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

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The phenomenal advancement of kosen-rufu
is due to our radiant, sun-like Women's division
and brilliant, flower-like Young Women's division.
Thank you all so much.
Hurrah for the women and young women
and their great solidarity of hope!

Tuesday, December 27th, 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: Teachings of Buddhism - Striding Together - 32, Seikyo Shimbun, December 20th, 2011

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The English poet Shelley wrote: 'A [person], to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.'[1]

SGI Newsletter No. 8414, Be Youthful Victors Who Brim with Wisdom and Good Cheer, from the Nov. 7th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Dec. 26th, 2011

[1] Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry," in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (London: E. Moxon, 1840), vol. 1, p. 17.

* 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 ---
TAIYO NO FUJINBU TO
KAYO NO JOSHIBU ARITE
KOSENRUFU WA DAIZENSHIN.
HONTO NI ARIGATO!
KIBO NO "scrum", BANZAI!

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

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