[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 14th Oct. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 15th Oct. 2012 Daily Enc.

* We have a national press holiday here in Japan today so we are holding on to "Words of the Week" to cover the gap. Hope that is OK! Hope you have a great week...

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

Sunday, October 14th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It has always been the SGI's proud tradition that "leaders"
take the initiative.
With unyielding determination,
let's open a great path to the future!
The time is right now to spur ourselves on,
brimming with a fresh challenging spirit.

Sunday, October 14th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku."

(The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 385) Selection Source: SGI President Ikeda's guidance, Seikyo Shinbun, October 14th, 2012

Monday, October 15th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin writes: 'I say this not out of arrogance, but because I am deeply committed to the correct teaching' (WND-1, 302).

"Being deeply committed to the correct teaching gives us the strength to surmount all hardship and adversity.

"What does it mean to have 'deep commitment to the correct teaching'? Our commitment to uphold the correct teaching must be very deep and strong. The state of Buddhahood wells up in the lives of those who have such commitment and resolve. It is important to have the spirit to treasure the Mystic Law and the Soka Gakkai. This spirit will ignite the passionate wish to strive for kosen-rufu. Courage will well forth from within your life."

SGI Newsletter No. 8641, Young Phoenixes, Soar into the Future! (7) President Ikeda's Lecture on "Letter from Sado"—Part 1 [of 2], from the May 2011 issue of the Daibyakurenge,, translated 4th Oct. 2012

* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web- site
address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html

--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
"Leader" SOSSEN KOSO
SOKA NO HOMARE NO DENTO DA.
SEME NO ICHINEN DE
MIRAI O KIRI HIRAKE!
IMA KOSO MOETATSU KETSUI DE.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"JIYU NO BOSATSU NO SHUTSUGEN NI ARAZUNBA TONAE GATAKI DAIMOKU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1360)


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