[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 26th Jan. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 27th Jan. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, January 26th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Come, now is the time to sow seeds (of peace) in people's hearts!
Let's sow seeds of happiness for our friends here
and seeds of hope for our friends there!
By encouraging others one by one,
let's make the whole world bloom with smiles!

*January 26 : SGI Day
Soka Gakkai International was established in Guam on January 26, 1975, and Daisaku Ikeda was inaugurated as the SGI president.

Saturday, January 26th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"[This is an incomparably greater wonder than] fire being produced by a stone taken from the bottom of a river, or a lantern lighting up a place that has been dark for a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years."

(The One Essential Phrase - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 923)
Selection source: SGI President's peace proposal 2013, Seikyo Shimbun, January 26th, 2013

Sunday, January 27th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"If you're only studying for yourself, eventually you will hit a dead end. But when you have the larger purposes of studying for the sake of others, for society, and for the world, studying becomes fun. And in the process, you build yourself into a great human being, too.

"...The more you study, the greater your dreams expand. You become more capable and accomplished, and are able to help others. You can bring smiles to people's faces and impart joy. You end up creating a wonderful environment around you.

"...There's no need to look back with regrets. You can start studying from now, from the place in life where you are at this moment.

"When she was 60 years old, the German author Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903) declared: 'I study and study. . . . For the sole reason of being able to study more would I wish to be young again!'[1]

"Educational background is not the same as learning or mental ability, and it is even less a measure of the full scope of a person's potential. A person's true capability can be measured by their desire to continue learning.

"In April this year (2012), two women aged 83 and 85 graduated from the Soka University's Division of Correspondence Education. Those who study in earnest shine with a noble and inspiring light."

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 Japanese. Berta Schleicher, Maruvida fon Maizenbuku (Malwida von Meysenbug), translated by Toshihiko Katayama (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1957), chap. 7,
pp. 77–78.

* 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--
SA TANE O MAKO!
KOFUKU NO TANE O ANO TOMO NI.
KIBO NO TANE O KONO TOMO NI.
ITTAI ICHI NO HAGEMASHI DE
SEKAIJU NI EGAO NO HANA O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"MIZU NO SOKONARU ISHI NI HI NO ARUGA GOTOKU HYAKUSENMANNEN KURAKI TOKORO NIMO TOMSHIBI O IRENUREBA AKAKU NARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1403)


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