[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 1st Dec. 2012 To My Friends and daily Gosho + 2nd Dec. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, December 1st, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our members in the great Tokaido region,*
who are burning with the spirit of justice,
establish a land of peace and happiness where you are
with powerful life force just like the rising sun.
The time to fulfill our goals and targets is now!

*The Tokaido region of Japan covers Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures

Saturday, December 1st, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realized this truth. The sutra's statement, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers," cannot be false in any way."

(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 217) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, December 1st, 2012

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"President Toda always warmly supported and encouraged members facing serious problems such as financial hardship, illness, or human relations difficulties. He said: 'The greater the obstacle, the greater the victory that awaits to be achieved. You can use your present struggles and hardships as the fuel to develop an expansive state of life that enables you to help many people and to enjoy a life of eternity, happiness, true self, and purity, thousands—no, millions—of times in your future existences!'

"In the light of the Mystic Law and the eternity of life, all of our trials and tribulations in this existence are simply phenomena that manifest to enable us to attain a state of indestructible happiness ourselves and to help others do the same. There are countless members in Japan and around the world who have demonstrated the power of faith that can change poison into medicine; they are all people who are infinitely rich in the 'treasures of the heart.'"

SGI Newsletter No. 8674, Raise High the Banner of Invincible Resolve, from the December 2012 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated 16th 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--
SEIGI NO TAMASHII MOYURU
TOKAIDO NO DOSHI YO!
KYOKUJITSU NO DAISEIMEIRYOKU DE
HEIWA NO RAKUDO O KIZUKE!
SOSHIAGE NO TOKI WA IMA!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKO NO SHUKUEN OI KITATTE KONDO NICHIREN GA DESHI TO NARI TAMAUKA SHAKA TAHO KOSO GOZONJI SORO RAME 'ZAIZAI SHOBUTSUDO JO YO SHI GUSHO' YOMO SORAGOTO SORAWAJI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1338)


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