[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 29th Nov. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 30th Nov. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, November 29th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To the Mens Division members, our golden pillars -
never give up, never be defeated, no matter what!
Another name for the Buddha is "victorious one."
Let's take on and overcome all types of hardships
and carve out our very own history of victories!

Thursday, November 29th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, November 29th, 2012

Friday, November 30th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
" Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. 'All others who bear you enmity or malice will likewise be wiped out' [cf. LSOC23, 329]. These golden words [of the Lotus Sutra] will never prove false. The heart of strategy and swordsmanship derives from the Mystic Law. Have profound faith. A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered.
- From "The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra" (WND-1, 1001).

"Always courageously open the way forwards with the 'strategy of the Lotus Sutra.' This is the Gakkai spirit in direct accord with the Daishonin's heart. For that reason, let's begin every undertaking with strong prayer.

"The Mystic Law has the beneficial power to vanquish all devilish functions. It can activate the heavenly deities and turn anyone in any of the Ten Worlds into a friend or ally.

"Even this supreme strategy, however, will be to no avail if we are cowardly. Courage is of the essence. With courageous faith, let us open the way to victory in all spheres."

SGI Newsletter No. 8677, Living the Gosho: (95) Open the Way Forwards Based on Faith, from the 24th Nov., 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 26th Nov. 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--
OGONBASHIRA NO SONENBU YO
DANJITE MAKERU NA!
HOTOKE NO IMYO WA [SHORISHA].
KUNAN NI UCHIKACHI
NANJIJISHIN NO REKISHI O SASAME!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)


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