[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 15th Dec. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 16th Dec. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, December 15th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The determinations we make in the morning
are what determine how the day unfolds.
All the actions that we take today
will be actions we will look back on forever.
Let's put forth our very best effort
to fullfill our own unique mission!

Saturday, December 15th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."

(Happiness in This World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 681)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 15th 2012

Sunday, December 16th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In his novel The Eternal City, Hall Caine writes: "And if they ask us when our Republic of Man is to come to practical results, we say when the world is ready for it, until first here and then there, as this or that country is ripe for it, it will govern the powers that govern the world."[1]

"The ideal we seek is not something divorced from everyday reality. It is something for us to build where we are right now."

SGI Newsletter No. 8687, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 26: Chap. 1, Atsuta 29, translated 13th Dec. 2012

[1] Hall Caine, The Eternal City (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), p. 177.

* 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--
ASA NO KETSUI GA
ICHINICHI O KIMERU!
KYO NO KODO GA
EIEN NO OMOIDE O TSUKURU!
WAGA SHIMEI O HATASE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOI AWASETE NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO UCHI TONAE ISASE TAMAE KORE ANI JIJU HORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJO NO SHINRIKI O ITASHI TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1143)


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