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

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

Friday, May 24th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's always be careful when travelling on the roads
and be on our guard for bag snatchers.
Let's also be careful not to leave our belongings behind.
Especially when we have a hectic schedule,
try to remind each other about these kind of things
so that we can all advance together free from any type of accident or incident!

Friday, May 24th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May 24th, 2013

Saturday, May 25th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In response to the question, 'What have you enjoyed most in life?' Helen Keller (1880–1968) replied: 'Overcoming difficulties.'[1] This was the spirit of a great woman who, though blind and deaf, had pressed forwards through all challenges to lead a life of social activism and contribution to humanitarian causes. Keller also declared: 'Patience and perseverance always conquer in the end.'[2]

SGI Newsletter No. 8764, SGI President Ikeda's Editorial, Walking the Path of Happiness and Victory Together with the Women's Division, translated 17th May, 2013 from the June edition of the Daibyaku Renge

[1] Joseph P. Nash, Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1998), p. 523.
[2] Judith St. George, Dear Dr. Bell..., Your Friend, Helen Keller (New York: Scholastic Inc., 1992), p. 54.

* 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--
KOTSUJIKO YA HITTAKURI
NIMOTSU NO OKIWASURE NI CHUI!
TABONA NAKA DAKARA KOSO
KOE O KAKEAI
ZETTAI MUJIKO DE SUSUME!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIONO MICHIHINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHIYORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJANO INORINO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARUBEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)


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