[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 30th June 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 1st July Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, June 30th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Congratulations on the anniversary of
the founding of the Student Division,
a day that brims with the vow of mentor and disciple.*
With your intellectual wisdom and courage,
send out a bright beam of hope to all the world!

*The student division was founded on June 30th, 1957, by second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda. The division consists of young men and women attending school at the college and university level.

Saturday, June 30th, 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 30th, 2010

Sunday, July 1st, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) once wrote, 'The only way to communicate the truth to others is through true actions.'[1]

SGI Newsletter No. 8550, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 25: Chap. 3 , Gentle Breeze 20, translated June 28th, 2012

[1] Translated from Japanese. Leo Tolstoy, "Shukyo Ron" (Essays on Religion), in Torusutoi Zenshu (Collected Works of Leo Tolstoy) (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1974), vol. 15, p. 152.

* 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 ---
SHITEI NO CHIKAI GA KAGAYAKU
GAKUSEIBU KESSEI NO HI
OMEDETO!
KIMITACHI NO EICHI TO YUKI DE
ZENSEKAI NI KIBO NO HIKARI O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHI HINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu - 1351)


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