[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 1st January 2013 Words of the Week, 2nd January Daily Gosho 2013 + 3rd January 2013 Daily Enc.

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

January 1st, 2013
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
This is the year of new challenges.
With our sights set on the completion of the new Soka Gakkai headquarters,
let's build a castle of capable people in our districts,
an indestructible castle of good fortune and happiness in our own personal lives
and together build a magnificent citadel of all our triumphant victories!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million of ryo of gold."
(On Prolonging One's Life Span - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 955)
Selection source: "The Banner of the Law" - 25, New Human Revolution, Seikyo Shimbun, Jan 1st, 2013

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The bond we share as fellow members of the SGI, mentor and disciples, is based on the vow to dedicate ourselves to the great adventure of realising kosen-rufu in this troubled saha world.

"Through courageous and compassionate dialogue, our grassroots movement has helped one suffering individual after another embrace the Gohonzon. Today, in countries around the world, members who uphold the Gohonzon—fellow Bodhisattvas of the Earth—are forging ahead heroically. While striving to overcome their own karmic trials, they bravely hold aloft the banner of happiness and victory for themselves and others.

"Proud and aware of their mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth, our members have stood up to enable all people of the Latter Day of the Law to savour life's true triumph. They are the genuine disciples and noble emissaries of the Buddha.

"Mr. Toda declared: 'To meet and encounter an auspicious time, to be in rhythm with that time, makes having been born worthwhile.'[1]

"We have entered an age when the banner pledging the 'fulfillment of the great vow for kosen-rufu through the compassionate propagation of the great Law' continues to spread all around the globe. No one can stop our momentum.

"Let's continue to forge ahead with confident and buoyant steps to expand our unprecedented movement for the victory of humanity, and fulfill our noble mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth."

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, from the August 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 25th Dec. 2012

[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1989), vol. 4, p. 287.

* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web- site
address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html

--KONSHU NO KOTOBA--
ARATANA CHOSEN NO ICHINEN DA.
SOHONBU NO KANSEI O MEZASHI
WAGA CHIKU NI JINZAI NO SHIRO O!
WAGA JINSEI NI FUKUTOKU NO SHIRO O!
SOSHITE WARERA NO SHORIJO O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"INOCHI TO MOSU MONOWA ISSHIN DAIICHI NO CHINPO NARI ICHINICHI NARITOMO KOREO NOBURUNARABA SENMANRYO NO KOGANE NIMO SUGITARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 986)


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