[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 12th March 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 13th March 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
If we take bold, courageous action
for the sake of our friends' happiness
our own lives shine, too.
It is the accumulation of such selfless acts
that builds indestructible "treasures of the heart"*.

* Treasures of the Heart: http://www.sgi-usa.org/memberresources/resources/buddhist_concepts/bc5_treasures_of_heart.php

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The voice carries out the work of the Buddha"

(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 708, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 4)
Selection source: President Ikeda's Essay - Our Great Path of Victory, Seikyo Shimbun, February 27th, 2013

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Today, together with my beloved and deeply trusted Fukushima members and Soka family in Tohoku, I would like to proclaim: 'We are treasure towers shining with the light of happiness!'

"A giant and magnificently adorned treasure tower appears in the Lotus Sutra. What does this treasure tower signify?

"The Daishonin clearly explains this in a response to a question from Abutsu-bo, a follower from Japan's northern climes [of Sado Island]: 'In the Latter Day of the Law, no treasure tower exists other than the figures of the men and women who embrace the Lotus Sutra.... [T]hose who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo are themselves the treasure tower' (WND-1, 299). And the Daishonin concludes: 'Abutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is Abutsu-bo himself' (WND-1, 299).

"In other words, your life itself is the treasure tower.

"The life of an individual is not something weak or powerless; it contains within it potential as vast and limitless as the universe. The treasure tower of life remains solid and unshaken, no matter what hardships may assail it. No one can destroy it."

SGI Newsletter No. 8732, SGI President Ikeda's Message, 64th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting,Treasure Towers Shining with the Light of Happiness, from the March 4th, 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 11th March 2013

* 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--
[TOMO NO TAME NI] TO
YUKI NO KODO O TSURANUKEBA
WAGA SEIMEI GA HIKARU!
SONO TSUMIKASANE GA
KUZUREZARU [KOKORO NO TAKARA] NI.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KOE BUTSUJI O NASU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 708)


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