[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 19th Dec. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 20th Dec. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It is thanks to the struggles and efforts of our Women's division
that all of us are able to advance victoriously.
Our hearts are filled with appreciation
and our palms are pressed together in reverence.
Three cheers to our sun-like mothers,
whose lives will eternally overflow with the greatest of good fortune!

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land.) There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds."

(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 4)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 19th, 2012

Thursday, December 20th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Some of you may have experienced setting yourself a target, but not being able to stick to it for long. I also understand this feeling well.

"But even if you only manage to stick to something for a few days, that's fine. When you challenge something even for three days, you'll achieve three days' worth of growth. You should feel good about yourself for having persevered in something for three days. There's no need to feel bad about stopping after a few days; just keep starting over again. If you repeat that pattern 10 times, that makes a whole month!

"Those who can keep refreshing their determination and trying again are most admirable. They are winners. The important thing is to continue challenging yourself with perseverance."

SGI Newsletter No. 8689, Soar into the Skies of Hope! [4] Summer of Challenge, from the 1st Aug., 2012, issue of Boys and Girls Hope News, the Soka Gakkai monthly newspaper for the boys and girls division, translated 14th Dec. 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--
FUJINBU NO FUNTO ARITE
MINA GA ZENSHIN, MINA GA SHORI!
KOKORO KARA KANSHA GASSHO.
EIEN NO FUKUTOKU NI MICHITA
TAIYO NO HAHA TACHI, BANZAI!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"MATA SHUJO NO KOKORO KEGARUREBA DO MO KEGARE KOKORO KIYOKEREBA DO MO KIYOSHI TOTE JODO TO II EDO TO IUMO DO NI FUTATSU NO HEDATE NASHI TADA WARERAGA KOKORO NO ZENAKU NI YORU TO MIETARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 384)


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