[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 3rd Jan. 2013 Daily Gosho + 4th Jan. 2013 Daily Enc.

* Last day of press holidays. Back to normal from the next edition!

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understand for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been the Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho zenshu, page 788, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 211)
Selection source: "Together with the Gosho", Seikyo Shimbun, December 27th, 2012

Friday, January 4th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Our chanting is directed toward the happiness of ourselves and others. It is the driving force for our efforts to draw forth our own and others' Buddha nature and absolutely attain true happiness together with them."

SGI Newsletter No. 8690, Bringing the Sun of Time without Beginning to Shine in Our Lives, from the January 2013 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated 17th Dec. 2012

* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web- site
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--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
SEINEN NO [NETSU] TO [CHIKARA] GA
SEKAI NO [SHINRO] O KIMERU.
O SOKA NO WAKODO YO!
KOSEN RUFU NO OGON JIDAI E
YUKI RINRIN TO KACHI SUSUME!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKA NO DAIKANKI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 788)


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