[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 4th Sep 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 5th Sep. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Never be defeated by the devil of illness.
Remember that "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion."*
Let's muster up all our life force and challenge whatever we face
and win in the "drama" of changing poison into medicine!

* Gosho - Reply to Kyo'o - WND-1 pg. 412, "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can therefore be an obstacle?"

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase."

(The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 386)
Selection source: Together with the Gosho - Encouragement by President Ikeda, Seikyo Shimbun, August 15th, 2012

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I remember one evening when I was having a long and leisurely conversation with two dear, respected friends, one from the UK and the other from China. At one point, we all affirmed the famous passage from the Analects of Confucius: 'A gentleman gathers friends through his culture; and with these friends, he develops his humanity.'[1] This is basically saying that we gather friends through our own learning and self-cultivation, and those friends in turn contribute to our growth as a human being.

"Friendship has two 'wings' that allow us to soar together to lofty heights, unswayed by feelings of like and dislike. One is the desire to learn and the other is personal development. Good friends gather around those who strive to learn and improve themselves. And it is among good friends that we can polish and cultivate our character. True friendship between people who aspire for lofty achievements can multiply the fruits of their labour many times over."

SGI Newsletter No. 8596, Dialogue for the Future: Travelling the Path of Victory Together with You, [3] Friendship Is a Treasure, from the July 1st, 2012, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, translated 31st Aug. 2012

[1] The Analects of Confucius, translated by Simon Leys (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997), p. 59.

* 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--
BYOMA NI MAKERU NA!
[NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO WA
SHISHIKU NO GOTOSHI]
DAISEIMEIRYOKU O FURUIOKOSHI
HENDOKU IYAKU NO "DRAMA" O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"GYOGAKU NO NIDO O HAGEMI SORO BESHI GYOGAKU TAENABA BUPPO WA ARU BEKARAZU WARE MO ITASHI HITO OMO KYOKE SORAE GYOGAKU WA SHINJIN YORI OKORU BEKU SORO CHIKARA ARABA ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO KATARASE TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1361)



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