[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 4th May 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 5th May 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Friday, May 4th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's give our absolute undivided attention to our precious children
and make all the effort we can to connect with them.
Let's create some happy and meaningful memories together!

*May 5th - Children's Day (Japan), Soka Gakkai Successors Day

Friday, May 4th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds."

(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 4)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, May 4th, 2012

Saturday, May 5th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What is the decisive factor in establishing a life-state of absolute happiness? It is not one's wealth or social standing. It is not one's position within the Soka Gakkai. It is established through carrying out one's human revolution by cultivating one's life through earnest and consistent Buddhist practice.

"As the French thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) wrote, 'The source of true happiness is within us.'[1]"

SGI Newsletter No. 8499, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 25: Chap. 2, Shared Struggle 33, translated April 26th, 2012

[1] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, trans. Charles E. Butterworth (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1992), p. 13.

* 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 ---
TAKARA NO KODOMO TACHI TO
SHIKKARI MUKIAI
KOKORO KAYOWASERU DORYOKU O!
TANOSHIKU YUIGINA
OMOIDE O TSUKURO!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHUJO NO KOKORO KEGARUREBA DO MO KEGARE KOKORO KIYOKEREBA DO MO KIYOSHI TOTE JODO TO II EDO TO IUMO DO NI FUTATSU NO HEDATE NASHI TADA WARERAGA KOKORO NO ZENAKU NI YORU TO MIETARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 384)


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