[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 18th Oct. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 19th Oct. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, October 18th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's hold our monthly discussion meetings full of joy and harmony
overflowing, as always, with a strong resolve for kosen-rufu.
Let's always be sure to show how deeply we appreciate those
who offer their homes as meeting places.
Let's also be considerate of the neighbours,
being careful not to cause them any inconvenience.
It is time now to embark upon the last lap of our endeavours
as we put the finishing touches on an amazing year!

Thursday, October 18th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is rare to be born a human being. The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain— as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honour than to live to 120 and die in disgrace."

(The Three Kinds of Treasure - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 851)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, October 18th, 2012

Friday, October 19th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Let us live our lives
with courage again today,
in high spirits,
as champions of humanity,
our sights on eternity.

"Almost a millennium ago, the renowned Kyrgyz poet and thinker Yusuf Khass Hajib (also known as Yusuf Balasagun; 1018–1069) wrote: 'My nature is uniform: [like the sun] I never change to something other than light.'[1]

"Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism is the Buddhism of the sun. Each morning, each day, as we resonantly chant daimoku, we cause the sun of time without beginning to rise within us, brightly illuminating our lives and society."

SGI Newsletter No. 8651, A Network of "Friends in the Orchid Room", from the November 2012 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated 16th Oct. 2012

[1] Yusuf Khass Hajib, Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig): A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes, translated by Robert Dankoff (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 66.

* 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--
KOFU NO KETSUI MINAGIRU
KANKI TO WARAKU NO ZADANKAI.
KAIJO TEIKYOSHA NI FUKAKU KANSHA!
SHUHEN NI MO SAISHIN NO HAIRYO O.
HONNEN NO SOSHIAGE E SHUPPATSU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"JINSHIN WA UKE GATASHI TSUME NO UE NO TSUCHI JINSHIN WA TAMOCHI GATASHI KUSA NO UE NO TSUYU HYAKU NIJU MADE TAMOCHITE NA O KUTASHITE SHISEN YORIWA IKITE ICHINICHI NARITOMO NA O AGEN KOTO KOSO TAISETSU NARE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1173)


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