[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 30th March 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 31st March Daily Enc.

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

Friday, March 30th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's important that we make every possible effort
to find the time to meet up with and chat with our friends!
It's when we meet face to face
and try to have those heart to heart exchanges
that a relationship of trust really begins to blossom.

Friday, March 30th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to spring."

(Winter Always Turns to Spring - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 536)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 30th, 2012

Saturday, March 31st, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In life, there are bound to be people we don't like or get along with. I've also encountered my share of unpleasant and spiteful people. Not even close friends always see eye to eye. Our relations with family members, too, may not always be smooth. And even in the SGI, there may sometimes be people we don't mesh with.

"Buddhism teaches the four sufferings and the eight sufferings.[1] The first four are the fundamental sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death. They, along with four additional sufferings, comprise the eight sufferings. Interestingly, one of these latter four is the suffering of having to meet with those whom one hates.

"In other words, everyone at some point or another experiences problems or difficulties in human relationships. We have to be ready to deal with such problems as long as we live....

"Taken from a different perspective, having to meet with people we don't like is just one of the eight sufferings—that is, only a small fraction of the human condition as a whole. It would be a loss, therefore, if you allowed relationship problems to consume your life.

"...never let go of the steadfast determination to study and develop yourselves, no matter what others might say or do."

SGI Newsletter No. 8481, To My Young Friends—Leaders of a New Age, [2] Courageously Facing Our Problems—Part 2 [of 3], from the Feb. 16th, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated March 28th, 2012.

[1] Eight sufferings: Also, eight universal sufferings. They comprise the four fundamental sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death, plus the four additional sufferings: (1) the sufferings of having to part from those whom one loves, (2) the suffering of having to meet with those whom one hates, (3) the suffering of being unable to obtain what one desires, and (4) the suffering arising from the five components that constitute one's body and mind.

* 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 ---
JIKAN O TSUKURI DASHI
ATTE KATARU KOTO DA.
ME TO ME O AWASE
KOKORO O KAYOWASETE KOSO
SHINRAI NO HANAZONO GA HIROGARU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO O SHINZURU HITO WA FUYU NO GOTOSHI FUYU WA KANARAZU HARU TO NARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1253)

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