[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 10th March 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 11th March 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Sunday, March 10th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
We are so grateful to all of those members
who are struggling with Mother Nature as farmers and fishermen.
You are indeed like the sun that illuminates your local community.*
May we all shine with boundless good fortune and benefit
by proudly dancing "a dance of fortune and victory,"**
showing actual proof of our victories
right where we are fulfilling our own unique missions!

* This weekend, in the national rebroadcast of the headquarters leaders' meeting, one strawberry farmer, a chapter leader, gave his experience of overcoming devastating loses in the wake of the tsunami of March 11th, 2011 in Tohoku. How he realised through his fervent daimoku, that the tsunami dumping so much sand and salt on his fields was in fact a benefit! He then went on to encourage 100 plus other farmers who had 100% completely given up hope to "fight back," won a humungous state of the art green house project for his fellow farmers and was then "conscripted" by all the farmers in his area to be their spokesman and finally got to meet the prime minister of Japan to explain all that he and his friends had gone through and hoped to achieve! And how he, to his face, hoped the new prime minister - Mr. Abe - would do a good job when he got back to Tokyo!
** And to top off the end of the rebroadcast, after President Ikeda was shown in two separate previously aired broadcasts giving some yet again vitally important guidance to the Tohoku members, President Ikeda danced the "Dance of Fortune and Victory."

Sunday, March 10th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The Law cannot be propagated by itself. Since a person propagates the Law, the person and the Law are worthy of respect"

(Hyakurokkasho - Gosho Zenshu, page 856, translated in Living Buddhism Oct. 2002 issue) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's guidance, Seikyo Shimbun, March 10th, 2013

Sunday, March 10th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'The reason that you have survived until now when so many have died was so that you would meet with this affair' (WND-1, 829), says the Daishonin. Being able to encounter the Mystic Law in the Latter Day and walk the path of worldwide kosen-rufu together as SGI members, united in the shared struggle of mentor and disciple, is itself an unsurpassed honour. It is a brilliant, golden life.

"Mr. Toda said: 'When life in this troubled world is hard, we are forced to ask ourselves why we were born. It is due to our karma from past existences that we were born in this world with the mission to carry out kosen-rufu in response to the Daishonin's decree. It all comes down to whether we are aware of this or not.'[1]

"When, in the long course of life, you face a struggle that you feel is crucial or major, you may experience a sense that 'The reason that you have survived . . . was so that you would meet with this affair.' I have had numerous such struggles together with my mentor and my fellow members that made me think they were 'the reason I had survived until now.' And I'm sure that must be true of many of you, too.

"When we chant and take action with the resolve that this present place and time in which we find ourselves is a crucial battlefield for making fresh breakthroughs in kosen-rufu, and also a decisive opportunity for changing our own karma, the way to victory will open. The key is seeing times of great challenge as opportunities for great positive change, and joyfully tackling the situation. This is the hallmark of true champions and the way of life of people of genuine wisdom."

SGI Newsletter No. 8731, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY [45] "Reply to Yasaburo." A Struggle of Words to Open the Way for Kosen-rufu, from the October 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 6th March 2013

[1] Translated from Japanese. From an article in the Soka Gakkai's monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge, August 1956 issue, p. 44.

* 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--
DAISHIZEN TO KAKUTO SURU
NOGYOKOBU NO TOMO NI KANSHA.
MINASAMA KOSO CHIIKI NO TAIYO!
WAGA SHIMEI NO TENCHI DE
FUKUTOKU TO SHORI NO MAI O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HO MIZUKARA HIROMARAZU HITO HO O HIROMURU YUE NI NINPO TOMONI TOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 856)


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