[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 15th Feb. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 16th Feb. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Friday, February 15th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
When we sincerely talk with others
we naturally will begin to develop trust with them.
And when we chant daimoku for the happiness of our friends
and courageously take action for their well-being,
our own life condition will be elevated.
This is the way we will achieve kosen-rufu!

Friday, February 15th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. no matter what happens."

(Happiness in This World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 681) Selection source: SGI Sweden member's experience, Seikyo Shimbun, February 15th, 2013

Saturday, February 16th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Buddhism teaches that the highest life-state of Buddhahood does not exist somewhere separate from us ordinary human beings or our daily reality, but within us. It teaches that we ourselves are Buddhas.

"Nichiren Daishonin likens the difficulty people have in believing this truth to the inability to see one's own eyelashes because they are so close. In the same way that beautiful blossoms emerge from the rough-barked branches of the cherry tree, he says, we ordinary people can bring forth the life-state of Buddhahood from within our lives.[1]

"!In short, it is the ultimate power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo that brings the supreme flower of life that is Buddhahood to bloom. This is an absolute and unfailing principle."

SGI Newsletter No. 8716, 63rd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting, Bringing Forth Flowers of Happiness and Victory in Our Lives, translated 13th Feb. 2013

[1] The Daishonin writes: "We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts. . . . [It is like the way that] the graceful cherry blossoms come forth from trees" (WND-1, 1137).

* 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--
SEIJITSUNA KATARAI WA
"SHINRAI" O NOKOSU.
TOMO NO TAME NI INORI UGOKEBA
"KYOGAI" GA HIROGARU.
SORE GA KOFU NO MICHI DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOI AWASETE NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO UCHI TONAE ISASE TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1143)


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