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

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

Friday, June 22nd, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our Men's Division members,
the golden pillars of the SGI,
thank you all so very much for your great hard work and efforts.
Full of life and brimming with a youthful spirit,
please take the type of leadership
that will determine victory after victory for kosen-rufu!

Friday, June 22nd, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 4) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, June 22nd, 2012

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"It is important that we put daimoku first. We must start by earnestly chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Why do we chant? To strengthen our lives and bring out our potential to the fullest extent.

"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'The mighty sword of the Lotus Sutra [Nam-myoho-renge-kyo] must be wielded by one courageous in faith. Then one will be as strong as a demon armed with an iron staff' (WND-1, 412).

"We need to break through the limitations of our lesser self and devote ourselves wholeheartedly to spreading the Mystic Law—discarding the negligent tendency to cut corners and do the least amount of work possible and the arrogance to think that our own shallow strategies will somehow carry us through. Nothing is more powerful than chanting daimoku based on the vow to win for the sake of kosen-rufu."

SGI Newsletter No. 8532, Humanistic Teachings for Victory, (3) The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra—Winning Based on Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Put Daimoku First, from the 7th March, 2012, issue of the Soka Shimpo, translated 7th June 2012

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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SOKA NO OGONBASHIRA
SONENBU NO ROKU NI KANSHA!
IKIIKITO WAKAWAKASHIKU
KOFU NO SHORI O KESSURU
MEISHIKI O TANOMU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"FUKAKU SHINJIN O OKOSHITE NICHIYA CHOBO NI MATA OKOTARAZU MIGAKU BESHI IKAYO NI SHITEKA MIGAKU BEKI TADA NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO TONAE TATEMATSURU O KORE O MIGAKU TOWA IU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 384)


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