[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 27th Feb. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 28th Feb. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our day-to-day SGI activities
offer the most effective opportunity for us to stay fit and healthy!
Let's chant, take action and use our voices unsparingly,
dedicating our energies for the sake of others' happiness.
It is through such efforts that our life acquires true meaning and fulfilment.

Wednesday, February 27th, 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, February 27th, 2013

Thursday, February 28th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
""Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Evil friends will employ enticing words, deception and flattery and speak in a clever manner, thereby gaining control over the minds of ignorant and uninformed people and destroying the good minds that are in them' (WND-2, 221). 'Evil friends' means corrupt or negative individuals who seek to obstruct our Buddhist practice and lead us to veer from the path to happiness. These evil friends 'employ enticing words, deception and flattery' to get close to us and gain our trust, and then try to persuade us to stop practising.

"'That's why it's so important to see such negative influences for what they are and stand firm against them. Good cannot prevail unless we combat evil. Defeating negative forces is also a form of compassion.'

"Founding Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi left the following important words of guidance: 'Unless you have the courage to be an enemy of those who are evil, you cannot be a friend to the good.'"[1]

SGI Newsletter No. 8727, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 26: Chap. 1, Atsuta 59, translated 25th Feb. 2013

[1] Translated from Japanese. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Makiguchi Tsunesaburo Zenshu (Collected Works of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi) (Tokyo: Daisanbunmei-sha, 1983), vol. 6, p. 71.

* 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--
HIBI NO GAKKAI KATSUDO WA
SAIKO NO KENKO HOHO NARI.
INORI UGOKI KOE O DASHI
TASHA NO TAME NI TSUKUSU.
SOKO NI SEIMEI NO JUJITSU GA!

-- 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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