[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 25th Jan. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 26th Jan. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Friday, January 25th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's be very careful not to catch the flu.
Let's make sure to thoroughly wash our hands and gargle often,
take every possible measure to keep ourselves warm
and have enough humidity when we are indoors.
At the same time,
it is also important to use our wisdom and creativity
so that we don't accumulate fatigue.
To maintain our good health is the very basis for victory.

Friday, January 25th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, January 25th, 2013

Saturday, January 26th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Learning is a right and a pleasure. Nothing is more enjoyable.

"The brutality of war, however, robbed the young people of my age of that right and joy. I was determined that the next generation should not experience the same deprivation, and I have fought all my life for peace.

"That's why I would like to share with you these words of the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), whom I read avidly in my youth: 'What a world of delight lies in learning!'[1]

"When you throw yourself wholeheartedly into the world of learning, you'll make many new and exciting discoveries. It was this joy that pulsed vibrantly in Goethe's life.

"Goethe—a poet, novelist, playwright, naturalist, and political leader—continued studying and learning throughout his life.

"I am presently engaged in a dialogue about Goethe with Dr. Manfred Osten, advisory board member of the Goethe Society in Weimar, Germany.[2] At the start of our dialogue, Dr. Osten spoke of Goethe's conviction that no one can take away what you have learned through arduous effort—it is yours forever.

"Human beings are born to learn. Life is an ongoing learning process.

"Even if we sometimes forget the exact content of what we have learned, the desire to learn forever adorns our lives."

SGI Newsletter No. 8709, Dialogue for the Future: Traveling the Path of Victory Together with You, A dialogue series addressing members of the junior high school division and high school division. [5] Those Who Continue Learning Are Victors in Life, from the 1st Sep., 2012, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, the Soka Gakkai monthly newspaper for the junior high school and senior high school divisions, translated 24th Jan. 2013

[1] Translated from German. Goethes Gespräche: Gesamtausgabe (Goethe's Conversations: Complete Compilation), compiled by Woldemar Frhr. von Biedermann and edited by Flodoard Frhr. von Biedermann (Leipzig: F. W. v. Biedermann, 1909), vol. 2, p. 10.
[2] The dialogue is being serialized in the Soka Gakkai–affiliated Ushio (Tide) monthly magazine.

* 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--
"Influenza" NI CHUI.
TEARAI UGAI O REIKO SHI
BOKAN YA KASHITSU O BANZEN NI!
TSUKARE O TAMENAI KUFU MO.
TAICHO KANRI GA SHORI NO GENSEN!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABE HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)


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