[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 22nd May 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 23rd May 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Every single moment of our lives
is a struggle against our own weaknesses.
Buddhism is about victory and success.
The lives of those who make up their minds to win
are adorned with the magnificent laurels of victory!

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Treating one's friends with courtesy means that, although one may encounter them ten or twenty times in the course of a single day, one greets them courteously as though they had travelled a thousand or two thousand miles to see one, never showing them indifference."
(The Four Virtues and the Four Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 2, page 636)
Selection source: President Ikeda's Essay - Noble Pledge of May 3rd, Seikyo Shimbun, May 4th, 2012

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda encouraged me:'Wisdom wells forth without limit in a life dedicated to the great vow of kosen-rufu. Learn! Learn everything you can!'

"Nothing is wasted in Buddhism. Though you may be busier than others, you will definitely experience greater fulfillment. All your efforts for kosen-rufu will lead to ultimate triumph in life. In the struggle to establish the correct teaching for the peace of the land, your lives will shine with indestructible brilliance."

SGI Newsletter No. 8520, Student Division Members, Achieve Brilliant Victories![1], from the June 2012 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated 18th May 2012.

[1] June 30th marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of the student division in 1957.

* 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 --
ISSHUN ISSHUN GA
JIBUN NO YOWASA TO NO TATAKAI.
BUPPO WA SHOBU DA.
KATSU TO KIMETA MONO NI
SHORI NO EIKAN WA KAGAYAKU!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"TOMODACHI NO ICHINICHI NI JUDO NIJUDO KITARERU HITO NARITOMO SENRI NISENRI KITARERU HITO NO GOTOKU OMOUTE REIGI ISASAKA OROKANI OMOU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1527)


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