[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 1st Sep. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 2nd Sep. Daily Enc.

* Hope there is a chance this weekend where we can share this with some of our friends...And remember we can always add people to the mailing list if you let us know their addresses - after checking with them! Hope you have a great weekend!...

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

Saturday, September 1st, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
September, the month in which we have the chance to make remarkable progress,
is here!
By always trying to do a refreshing gongyo and
chanting daimoku with the rhythm of a galloping white horse,
let's courageously advance winning victory after victory!
Together, let's make monumental achievements of success.

Saturday, September 1st, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Regard your service to your lord as the practice of the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by 'No worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true reality.'"

(Reply to a Believer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. I, page 905)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, September 1st, 2012

Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chant daimoku
and develop a lofty self
rivalling Mount Fuji.

"In the countries where we have vowed to carry out kosen-rufu and in our own lives of mission, there will inevitably be difficulties and trials. But we of the SGI are champions of invincible courage; the tougher the challenges, the harder we fight.

"Referring to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth who vow to endure all manner of difficulties to propagate the Mystic Law in the evil age after the Buddha's passing, the Daishonin writes: 'These bodhisattvas are the ones who had thoroughly forged their resolve' (WND-1, 953). To be able to withstand hardship, be undaunted by it, and surmount it—that is a sign that one's life is 'thoroughly forged,' as the Daishonin puts it. The inherent life force of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth is profound, strong, and immense beyond measure. In his writings, the Daishonin clearly states that they have the power to overcome every great hardship and persecution."

SGI Newsletter No. 8592, Our Brilliant Path to Victory, Youth Are the World's Treasure—Part 2 [of 2], from the Aug. 8th, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Aug. 23rd, 2012

* 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--
YAKUSHIN NO KUGATSU DA.
HAKUBA GA KAKERU YONA
SUGASUGASHII GONGYO SHODAI DE
YUKAN NI KACHI SUSUME!
TOMONI SHORI NO KINJITO O.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ON MIYAZUKAI O HOKEKYO TO OBOSHIMESE 'ISSAI SEKEN NO CHISEI SANGYO WA MINA JISSO TO AI IHAI SEZU' TOWA KORE NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1295)


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