[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 26th Dec. 2012 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 27th Dec. 2012 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To our dear friends battling illness,
I sincerely hope that you will never be defeated, no matter what!
The Mystic Law is the wonderful medicine of life.
Exerting the power of a roaring lion king in our chanting,
let's all embark on a fresh journey of good health and victory!

Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I wonder what karma we created in the past to have been born as such persons, and I am filled with joy."
(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, pg 1108)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 26th, 2012

Thursday, December 27th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Simply put, kosen-rufu means striving to realise happiness for ourselves and others and to create a peaceful world, with our own human revolution serving as the driving force for those efforts.

"What, then, is the way for all of us to become happy and move forwards unerringly towards the great ideal of world peace?

"Nichiren Daishonin inscribed the Gohonzon and bestowed it on us—people living in the turbulent times of the Latter Day of the Law—as the means for manifesting our innate Buddhahood and attaining a state of absolute happiness. Through chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with faith in the Gohonzon, anyone can tap the immeasurable beneficial power of the Mystic Law within their life and become happy without fail. This is clear in the light of the Daishonin's teachings.

"Second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, while apologising for using a simplistic analogy, often described the Gohonzon, with its tremendous power, 'a happiness-manufacturing machine.' He stated:

"We can look upon the Gohonzon as a device that employs the supreme principles of Buddhism—much in the way, for instance, a light bulb is a device that is based on the principles of electricity. As for the purpose of this Gohonzon—a device based on the highest philosophy of Buddhism—it functions as the means for helping people attain happiness. The way of practising this supreme philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin, therefore, lies in chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with faith in the Gohonzon, a practice by which all people can become happy."[1]

SGI Newsletter No. 8691, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [43] "Reply to Niiama"
The Gohonzon Opens the Way to Happiness for All People, translated 25th Dec. 2012

[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda) (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1981), vol. 1, pp. 104–5.

* 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--
BYOMA TO TATAKAU TOMO YO
ZETTAI NI MAKERU NA!
MYOHO WA SEIMEI NO DAIRYOYAKU.
SHISHIKU NO DAIMOKU DE
KENKO, SHORI E SHUPPATSU DA!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"IKANARU KAKO NO SHUKUSHU NITE, KAKARU MI TO WA IKIRU RAMU TO WA YOROKOBI MAIRASE SORO"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1586)


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