[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 25th Feb. To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 26th Feb. Daily Enc.

 

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

Saturday, February 25th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us,
"A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered."*
So let's live out our lives bravely!
Boldly deciding "Bring on whatever,"
let's determine to courageously chant daimoku
and dauntlessly take action!

*"Have profound faith. A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered." - "The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra", WND-I, page 1001

Saturday, February 25th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku."

(The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 385) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, February 25th, 2012

Sunday, February 26th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"There is a tendency to feel disappointed and dispirited if, in spite of how earnestly we try to share Buddhism with someone, they don't take faith. But the benefits obtained through letting people hear the teaching and leading people to arouse faith in the teaching are the same. The important thing is to speak out and share the correct teachings of Buddhism."

SGI Newsletter No. 8458, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 25: Chap. 2, Shared Struggle 16, translated Feb. 23rd, 2012.

* 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 ---
"OKUBYO NITEWA
KANAU BEKARAZU"
JINSEI WA TSUYOKI DE IKE!
"SA KOI!" TO KIMETE
YUKAN NI INORI UGOKE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
MAPPO NI SHITE MYOHORENGEKYO NO GOJI O HIROMEN MONO WA NANNYO WA KIRAU BEKARAZU MINA JIYU NO BOSATSU NO SHUTSUGEN NI ARAZUNBA TONAE GATAKI DAIMOKU NARI(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)

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