[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 16th June 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 17th June 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, June 16th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Overconfidence and carelessness are our greatest enemies.
Let's particularly be very careful about traffic accidents,
fire, fraud, and bag-snatchers.
By constantly reminding each other to be vigilant about these things,
let's take every possible precaution to prevent
any form of accident or incident from happening.

Saturday, June 16th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase."

(The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 386)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, June 16th, 2012

Sunday, June 17th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda called out to us, his disciples, at a packed gathering at the International Stadium (later the Nihon University Auditorium) in Tokyo's Ryogoku area: 'To just chant daimoku ourselves is not practising in accord with the time. Practicing in accord with the time means sharing the Daishonin's Buddhism with others.'[1] The essence of faith in the Daishonin's Buddhism is practising for oneself and others. The practice most suitable for this age is to actively go out and meet with others and help them forge a connection with Buddhism based on a spirit of compassion and an earnest desire to share the Mystic Law with them."

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.

[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (The Collected Writings of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1989), vol. 4, p. 535.

* 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 ---
YUDAN WA TAITEKI DA.
KOTSU JIKO, KASAI, SAGI
HITTAKURI NIMO YOJIN O!
MINA DE CHUI O YOBIKAKE
JIKO O MIZEN NI FUSEGE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"GYOGAKU NO NIDO O HAGEMI SORO BESHI GYOGAKU TAENABA BUPPO WA ARU BEKARAZU WARE MO ITASHI HITO OMO KYOKE SORAE GYOGAKU WA SHINJIN YORI OKORU BEKU SORO CHIKARA ARABA ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO KATARASE TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1361)



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