[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 11th Sep. 2012 To my Friends and Daily Gosho + 12th Sep. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Gosho says:
"Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night."*
Remember that Daimoku is the "rhythm" for achieving victory.
Let's assiduously polish and shine (the mirror of) our lives,
based on faith that is as pure as a clear, running stream.

* Gosho, On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - WND 1, pg 4, "Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. no matter what happens."

(Happiness in This World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 681)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, Sept 11th, 2012

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The noble wish of both Mr. Makiguchi and Mr. Toda was that all Soka Gakkai members would brim with the joy of realising that they were Bodhisattvas of the Earth, and that they would each follow the path of their mission in this lifetime with courage, pride, and strength.

"In the process of dedicating our lives to kosen-rufu, we can attain a vast and boundless state of life and lead an existence of deep satisfaction in which all our hopes and desires are fulfilled.

"With the example of his own behaviour during the life-threatening Tatsunokuchi Persecution, Nichiren Daishonin taught us the nobility and lofty humanity of one who has awakened to this ultimate state of life. Through this persecution, the Daishonin, as an ordinary person, manifested the life-state of the Buddha of limitless joy enlightened from time without beginning,[1] who is one with the Mystic Law."

SGI Newsletter No. 8602, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [40] "The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra"—Part 2 [of 3], Revealing the True and Highest Potential of Life, from the May 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 6th Sep. 2012


[1] The Buddha of limitless joy enlightened from time without beginning. Also, Buddha of beginningless time. The eternal Buddha who has awakened to the supreme Law, embodies that Law, and freely employs its benefit. "Time without beginning" does not indicate a particular point in the distant past, but eternity.


* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web- site
address at http://www.sokanet.jp/sg/sn/member_support_top.html

--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
[NICHIYA CHOBO NI
MATA OKOTARAZU MIGAKU BESHI]
DAIMOKU WA SHORI NO "RHYTHM" DA.
SEIRYU NO GOTOKI SHINJIN DE
WAGA SEIMEI O KITAENUKE!


-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO TO UCHI TONAE ISASE TAMAE"

(Gosho Zenshu, page 1143)


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