[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 5th Jan. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 6th Jan. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, January 5th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's take the initiative in greeting other people.
Just a few caring words of concern
can open the door to other's hearts.
Brimming with a fresh vibrant and youthful spirit,
let's energetically start the new year!

Saturday, January 5th, 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: SGI President Ikeda's New Year's message, Seikyo Shimbun, January 4th, 2013

Sunday, January 6th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"We are trailblazers, heroic individuals paving new paths forward. With the heart of a lion king, let's each elevate our state of life, help others form a connection with the Daishonin's Buddhism, foster capable people for kosen-rufu, and triumphantly open a new age of Soka.

"'Sharing a vow
from the remote past—
let us once again this year
resolutely build
a great citadel of victory.'"

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
address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html

--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
MIZUKARA SUSUNDE AISATSU O!
MAGOKORO NO HITOKOTO GA
TOMO NO KOKORO O HIRAKU!
MIZUMIZUSHI IBUKI DE
YAKUDO NO SHINSHUN O KAZARE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA 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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