[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 17th April 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 18th April 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"I will win, no matter what!"
Having such strong confident faith means to believe in the power of the practice
with unwavering conviction.
Let's advance proudly
basing our actions on the "Strategy of the Lotus Sutra!"*

* Gosho: The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra- WND-1, pg 1000, "It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself to muster the power of faith. Regard your survival as wondrous. Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. 'All others who bear you enmity or malice will likewise be wiped out.' These golden words will never prove false. The heart of strategy and swordsmanship derives from the Mystic Law. Have profound. faith. A coward cannot have any of his prayers answered."

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"A blue fly, if it clings to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, can travel ten thousand miles, and the green ivy that twines around the tall pine can grow to a thousand feet."

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land- The Writings of Nichiren Dashonin, Vol. 1, page 17)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 17th, 2013

Thursday, April 18th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Connections forged through the Mystic Law are eternal. By fulfilling our role in this existence, we will definitely be able to create a happy and harmonious family.

"As I often say, a family can still be happy and harmonious, even if not every single member of the family is practising Nichiren Buddhism. All it takes is one person in the family shining with the sunlike brilliance of the Mystic Law to illuminate their entire family. The good fortune and benefit that person gains through faith will flow on to encompass the family's descendants in generation after generation, so there is nothing to worry about if other family members don't practise.

"Just focus on being the one who brings happiness and harmony in your family. When you expand your own state of life, you will be able to realise a happy and harmonious environment."

SGI Newsletter No. 8746, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory [46], The Three Obstacles and Four Devils. The Wise Will Rejoice, Let's Achieve Eternal Victory through Undefeated Buddhist Practice, from the November 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 8th April 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--
TSUYOKI SHINJIN TO WA
ZETTAI NI KATSU! TO IU
YURUGINAI KAKUSHIN DA.
HOKEKYO NO HEIHO DE
IFU DODO NO ZENSHIN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SOYO KIBI NI FUSHITE BANRI O WATARI HEKIRA SHOTO NI KAKARITE SENJIN O NOBU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 26)


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