[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 24th April 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 25th April 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our youthful Bodhisattvas of the Earth,*
I sincerely hope that you will always live out you lives
with the most lofty of ideals!
You, our youth are our very hope.
With your voices and actions overflowing with confidence and conviction
please open up the the way to a new age.

* Bodhisattvas of the Earth: http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=175

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This life is like a dream. One cannot be sure that one will live until tomorrow. However wretched a beggar you might become, never disgrace the Lotus Sutra."

(A Warning against Begrudging One's Fief - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. I, page 824)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shinbun, April 24th, 2013

Thursday, April 25th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Club of Rome Honourary President Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner stressed the importance of talking with others, no matter who they might be, because in the course of doing so we can discover the treasure within each individual.[1]

"Through dialogue, we can gain hope and faith in our fellow human beings.

"Bodhisattva Never Disparaging who appears in the Lotus Sutra consistently bowed and spoke to others with reverence for the supreme treasure of their inherent Buddha nature. Even when arrogant people responded with abuse, he refused to be discouraged or deterred.

"Such indomitable efforts to reach out to others in dialogue based on respect for their humanity are the essential practice of the Lotus Sutra. With unflagging commitment, joy, and patience, we of the SGI are carrying out this very practice in contemporary society."

SGI Newsletter No. 8751, Creating a "Treasure Realm" of Happiness and Harmony, from the May 2013 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 18th April 2013

[1] Translated from Japanese. In an article in the Daibyakurenge, May 2012 issue.

* 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--
JIYU NO WAKODO YO
DAI RISO NI IKINUKE!
SEINEN KOSO KIBO DA.
KAKUSHIN NO KOE TO KODO DE
SHINJIDAI O KIRIHIRAKE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ISSHO WA YUME NO UE ASU O GOSEZU IKANARU KOTSUJIKI NIWA NARU TOMO HOKEKYO NI KIZU O TSUKE TAMAU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1163)


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