[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 7th Dec. To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 8th Dec. Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
I hope that members of the Women's and Young Women's division
will follow the "Home by 10" movement and make their best effort
to return home quickly after evening meetings and activities!
I hope that everyone will be considerate of our precious WD and YWD members
and together make sure that they are absolutely safe and free from harm.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If they were people who understood their obligations or were capable of reason, then out of two blows that fall on me, they would receive one in my stead."
(Reply to Yasaburo - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 828)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 7th, 2011

Thursday, December 8th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chinese author Ba Jin (1904–2005) said: 'The future has endless possibilities, and can be shaped in innumerable ways through one's own efforts.... Hope is produced through effort.'[1]
SGI Newsletter No. 8393, Cultivating a Great Forest of Capable People, translated Dec. 5th, 2011 from the May 27th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun

[1] Translated from Chinese. Ba Jin, Ba Jin jingxuanji (Selected Works of Ba Jin) (Beijing: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House, 2006), p. 279.

* 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 ---
TENKI UNDO O MAMORI
JOSHIBU, FUJINBU WA
HAYAME NO KITAKU O!
SHUI MO HAIRYO SHI
MINA DE ANNON O KACHITORE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"MOSHI ON O SHIRI KOKORO ARU HITOBITO WA FUTATSU ATARAN TSUE NIWA HITOTSU WA KAWARU BEKI KOTO ZOKASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1450)

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