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

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

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To those people who are going through the greatest of hardships,
I hope you will practice the kind of faith
that will make you the very happiest of people!
Times of extreme predicament are the times
that help us arouse the greatest strength from within.
Now is the time to take that one courageous step forwards!

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquillity throughout the four quarters of the land, should you not?"

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 24)
Selection source: President Ikeda's Essay, Our Road to Victory - 74, Seikyo Shimbun, Jun 6th, 2012

Thursday, June 7th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When mentor and disciple are united, they can achieve anything and always be victorious. The path of mentor and disciple is the great path for absolute victory.

"The Buddha is a teacher who has realised a profound inner transformation [based on the ultimate truth of the Mystic Law]. In the Lotus Sutra, he says: 'At the start I took a vow, hoping to make all persons equal to me, without any distinction between us' (LSOC2, 70 [LS2, 36]). This, in other words, is the great vow to enable all people to attain Buddhahood. The unfolding drama of disciples standing up to realise this vow of the Buddha is indeed the central theme of the Lotus Sutra. The widespread propagation of the Law—the movement for kosen-rufu—is an unceasing, momentous struggle to elevate all humanity to the same life-state as the Buddha.

"Throughout his writings, the Daishonin frequently uses the expressions 'Nichiren's disciples' or 'my disciples.' The path of kosen-rufu entails standing up with a profound sense of mission as a disciple of the Daishonin. It is the noble spiritual struggle to bring about an inner transformation in the lives of all humanity through the process of human revolution in an age steeped in the three poisons[1] and racked by endless conflict and tragedy. This struggle will eventually bring about a change in the life-state of humanity as a whole and, with it, also a change in the destiny of the world."

SGI Newsletter No. 8529, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [38] "Flowering and Bearing Grain", Achieving Kosen-rufu through the Shared Commitment of Mentor and Disciple, from the March 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 4th June 2012

[1] Three poisons of greed, anger, and foolishness: The fundamental evils inherent in life that give rise to human suffering. In Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, the three poisons are regarded as the source of all illusions and earthly desires. The three poisons are so called because they pollute people's lives and work to prevent them from turning their hearts and minds to goodness.

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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
ICHIBAN KURO SHITA HITO GA
ICHIBAN SHIAWASE NI NARU SHINJIN!
[KUKYO] GA ARATANA CHIKARA O
YOBISAMASU.
SA YUKI NO IPPO O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ISSHIN NO ANDO O OMOWABA MAZU SHIHYO NO SEIHITSU O INORAN MONO KA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 31)


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