[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 6th May 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 7th May 2012 Daily Enc.

* We have a Japanese press holiday today so we will hold on to "Words of the Week" to cover the gap tomorrow. Hope that is OK!

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

Sunday, May 6th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our behavior as a human being is itself kosen-rufu.
"Every time I meet that person, my spirits are up-lifted!"
Let's make every effort to become the type of person
who always acts with the utmost of sincerity
and who constantly earns the praise and respect of others.

Sunday, May 6th, 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: Kibo no Izumi, Seikyo Shimbun, May 6th, 2012

Monday, May 7th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin declares: 'If you believe in this [Lotus] sutra, all your desires will be fulfilled in both the present and the future' (WND-1, 750).

"A true sense of fulfillment or satisfaction can't be found in chasing after money or possessions. The highest state of being is the enriched spiritual condition of desiring little and feeling satisfied, free from the control of desires. In other words, true happiness resides in accumulating treasures of the heart.

"The famous Italian architect and author Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72) asserted that nothing is more preferable than inner riches.[1]"

SGI Newsletter No. 8498, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 25: Chap.r 2, Shared Struggle 31, translated 26th April, 2012.

[1] Translated from Latin. Leon Battista Alberti, De Commodis Litterarum atque Incommodis (The Advantages and Disadvantages of Literature), edited by Laura Goggi Carotti (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1976), pp. 115–16.

* 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 ---
WAGA FUMUMAI KOSO KOFU!
"ANO HITO NI AUTO
GENKI GA DERU!"
SO SHOSAN SARERU
DAISEIJITSU NO HITO TARE!

-- 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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