[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 14th June 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 15th June 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, June 14th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's do our utmost to protect the precious homes of fellow members
who so kindly offer their residences for meetings of our kosen-rufu movement.
It is important to be extremely careful about the parking
of our cars and bicycles in the vicinity
and to refrain from even talking in a low voice when outside.
Let's strictly adhere to the ending times of meetings
and make sure we don't go over.
And let's never forget to be considerate of the member's family!

Thursday, June 14th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, June 14th, 2012

Friday, June 15th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
In a letter to his youthful follower Nanjo Tokimitsu, Nichiren Daishonin writes: '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' (WND-2, 636).

"When welcoming or visiting friends, it is important to always show them the utmost courtesy and interact with them sincerely.

"In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, the Daishonin states that the Lotus Sutra passage, 'You should rise and greet them from afar, showing them the same respect you would a Buddha' (cf. LSOC28, 365), constitutes 'the foremost point he [Shakyamuni Buddha] wished to convey to us' (OTT, 192)."

SGI Newsletter No. 8538, Our Brilliant Path to Victory, The Vow of May 3rd, [1] Shin'ichi Yamamoto is a pen name of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda, from the 4th May, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 13th June 2012.

* 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 ---
KOFU NO KYOTEN O MAMORE!
CHUSHA, CHURIN NI CHUI.
SOTO DE WA SHIGO O TSUTSUSHIMU.
SHURYO JIKAN O GENSHU SEYO.
KAZOKU E NO HAIRYO MO WASUREZU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)


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