[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 11th Dec. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 12th Dec. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Shikoku*, where members burn with a passionate spirit and resolve,
is the very powerhouse for a peaceful revolution.
Let's all courageously advance with the stand-alone spirit!
The cries of truth and justice are certain to send out a thousand waves.

*Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Not once have I thought of retreat."

(The Great Battle - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 2, page 465)
Selection source: "Myoji no Gen", Seikyo Shimbun, December 7th, 2012

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
""In Hall Caine's The Eternal City, the hero David Rossi composes a letter that contains the following passage: 'When a man has spent all his life on the edge of a precipice, the most urgent perils are of little moment.'[1]

"First Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, second president Josei Toda, and I have all spent our lives as if on the edge of a precipice because we embarked on a struggle dedicated to the realisation of kosen-rufu.

"Having actively promoted religious reform for the sake of the enduring happiness of all people and the realisation of lasting world peace, the Soka Gakkai's history has been characterised by great vicissitudes and constant criticism and defamation. I have stood at the forefront of this struggle, striving with Nichiren Daishonin's injunction 'not to expect good times, but take the bad times for granted' (WND-1, 998) as my creed.

"As Caine wrote in The Eternal City, I, too, have regarded the most urgent perils as of little moment. I hope all of you, too, in accord with the Daishonin's teachings and as Soka Gakkai members, will forge an unshakable commitment for kosen-rufu, establishing a dauntless state of life like Rossi."

SGI Newsletter No. 8682, The New Human Revolution––Volume 26: Chapter 1, Atsuta 27, translated 4th Dec. 2012

[1] Hall Caine, The Eternal City (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), p. 173.

* 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--
KOKOROZASHI MOERU SHIKOKU KOSO
HEIWAKAKUMEI NO DENGENCHI DA!
YUKAN NI HITORI TATE!
JIJITSU NO TAMASHI NO SAKEBI WA
KANARAZU BANPA TO HIROGARU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NICHIREN ICHIDOMO SHIRIZOKU KOKORO NASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1224)


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