[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 25th April 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 26th April 2012 Daily Enc.

Pres. Ikeda has an article in today's Japan Times...Toward 2015 -- calling for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
URL: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120425di.html

Might like to check it out. And here is today's TMF and more...

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

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The times that we live in are extremely turbulent.
That is precisely why it is important for us to
manifest the principle of "faith equals daily life,"
and live out each and every day to the fullest.
Not allowing carelessness or neglect to set in,
let us live safe and accident free lives.

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can therefore be an obstacle?"
(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 412)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, April 25, 2012

Thursday, April 26th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'What is called faith is nothing unusual. Faith means putting one's trust in the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, and the heavenly gods and benevolent deities, and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a woman cherishes her husband, as a man lays down his life for his wife, as parents refuse to abandon their children, or as a child refuses to leave its mother.'
- From 'The Meaning of Faith' (WND-1, 1036).

"Faith is one of the most natural expressions of the human heart. We can simply chant to the Gohonzon with the same spirit of devotion as one cherishes one's family or as a parent seeking to protect one's child.

"The members of the Young Mothers Group[1] are striving valiantly amid often challenging realities. It is our immediate environment, our daily life, that forms the stage on which we live out our drama of human revolution.
I hope that, today again, you will wisely and cheerfully shine as bright suns of happiness!"

SGI Newsletter 8496, Living the Gosho: Words of Encouragement from SGI President Ikeda. (74) Shine as Bright Suns of Happiness, from the 11th April, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 24th April 2012

[1] April 11 is Young Mothers Group Day in Japan. This women's division group provides mutual support and encouragement for mothers raising young children.

* 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 ---
JIDAI WA HAGESHIKU UGOKU.
DAKARA KOSO
SHINJIN SOKU SEIKATSU O JISSHI SHI
JUJITSU SHITA ICHINICHI ICHINICHI O.
YUDAN NAKU MUJIKO DE ARE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO WA SHISHIKU NO GOTOSHI IKANARU YAMAI SAWARI O NASU BEKIYA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1124)




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