A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king"*
Faith is all about manifesting one's courage!
Now is the time to let out the lion's roar of truth and justice
that will open up and transform the era!
Gosho - On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - WND1-997, "Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs."
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself to muster the power of faith."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1000)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, July 28th, 2012
Selection source: "Myoji no Gen", Seikyo Shimbun, August 15th, 2012
Monday, August 20th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
You all have a very important and wonderful mission. I hope you will be filled with hope and live out your lives to the fullest. Become healthy in the truest sense, and encourage as many people suffering from illness as you can.
The sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death can be transformed into a victorious life imbued with the four noble virtues of eternity, happiness, true self, and purity. This is the life of Soka, or value creation.
SGI Newsletter No. 8588, SGI President Ikeda's Guidance for Youth, To My Young Friends—Leaders of a New Age, Translated on Wednesday, August 15, 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 ---
[ONO ONO SHISHIO NO
KOKORO O TORIDASHITE]
SHINJIN TOWA YUKI DA!
SA JIDAI O HIRAKU
SEIGI NO SHISHIKU O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TADA KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU NARE IKANI NICHIREN INORI MOSU TOMO FUSHIN NARABA NURETARU HOKUCHI NI HI O UCHIKAKURU GA GOTOKU NARUBESHI HAGEMI O NASHITE GOJONI SHINRIKI O IDASHI TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1192)
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