[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 2nd March 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 3rd March 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our uncrowned heroes and heroines,
the messengers of hope and courage,
thank you all so much for delivering
the Seikyo Newspaper (and all our other SGI publications) every morning.
May the spring of happiness abound in your lives!
All of your fellow members are sincerely chanting for you.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What a joy it is for us to have been born in the Latter Day of the Law and to have shared in the propagation of the Lotus Sutra! How pitiful are those who, though born in this time, cannot believe in this sutra!"

(Letter to Niike - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1,page 1026) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, March 2nd, 2013

Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In 'On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime,' Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Whether you chant the Buddha's name, recite the [Lotus] sutra, or merely offer flowers and incense, all your virtuous acts will implant benefits and roots of goodness in your life. With this conviction, you should strive in faith' (WND-1, 4).

"In other words, please be assured that everything we do for kosen-rufu—including our gongyo and daimoku and all our Gakkai activities—becomes a source of benefit and good fortune for ourselves and for our families, and forms the vital 'roots' that allow happiness to thrive.

"I also hope you will always engage in activities with a positive attitude. And please keep not only the aims of the organisation, but your own personal aims, clearly in view, then chant and take action wholeheartedly to realise them and transform your various sufferings and problems. To win in the realm of kosen-rufu is to win in life. To find joy in our activities is to find joy in life.

"The life condition of those who truly enjoy Gakkai activities and introducing others to Buddhism is the life condition of the Buddha."

SGI Newsletter No. 8727, The New Human Revolution, Vol. 26: Chap. 1, Atsuta 61, translated 25th Feb. 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--
YUKI TO KIBO NO SHISHA
"MUKAN NO TOMO" YO!
MAIASA NO HAITATSU ARIGATO!
MINASAMA NO KOFUKU NO HARUYO KITARE.
ZENDOSHI GA INOTTE IRU.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"URESHIKIKANA MAPPORUFU NI UMARE AERU WARERA KANASHIKIKANA KONDO KONOKYO O SHINZEZARU HITOBITO"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1439)


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