[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 14th May, 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 15th May, 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's said that not to advance is to retreat.
It's in the midst of advancement that we can grow and develop.
It's while we are taking action that we can find true joy.
With courage in our hearts, let's advance!
Let's break through those personal walls that limit us!

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Therefore a person who upholds the Lotus Sutra is repaying the debt of gratitude owed to father and mother. Even if one does not feel in one's own heart that one can do so, one can repay it through the power of this sutra."

(The Four Virtues and the Four Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.2, page 638)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shinbun, May 14th, 2013

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"It is important that our faith in the Gohonzon and seeking spirit toward the Mystic Law are strong, unwavering, and sincere. Those who wish to transform their karma, who pray for the realisation of kosen-rufu, and who strive for that cause with ungrudging devotion are guaranteed to achieve a life of happiness and victory. Those who sincerely persevere in their Buddhist practice will be victors; they will win out in the end. This is the ultimate purpose of faith in Nichiren Buddhism.

"Adversity forges us into people of genuine character and cultivates strong will; it allows us to taste life's tears of true joy and sorrow and to achieve a great human revolution."

SGI Newsletter No. 8761, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [47] "Persecution by Sword and Staff"
Triumphing over Adversity - The Eternal Honour of the Shared Struggle of Mentor and Disciple, from the December 2012 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 8th May, 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--
[SUSUMAZARU WA TAITEN]
ZENSHIN NO NAKA NI SEICHO GA ARU.
KODO NO NAKA NI KANKI GA ARU.
YUKI O MUNE NI MAE E!
JISHIN NO KABE O YABURE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO O TAMOTSU HITO WA CHICHI TO HAHA TONO ON O HOZURU NARI WAGA KOKORO NIWA HOZURU TO OMOWANEDOMO KONO KYO NO CHIKARA NITE HOZURU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1528)


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