[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 25th May, 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 26th May, 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, May 25th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Any action without chanting daimoku only causes us to
spin our wheels and/or stagnate!
By chanting daimoku sonorously and
subsequently having abundant strong life force,
let's boldly take action and converse with others.

Saturday, May 25th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There is no true happiness for human being other than chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. The sutra reads, '. . . where living beings enjoy themselves at ease.' How could this passage mean anything but the boundless joy of the Law?"

(Happiness in This World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 681)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May 25th, 2013

Sunday, May 26th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In a letter to the lay nun Ueno [the mother of Nanjo Tokimitsu], Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'With regard to the Lotus Sutra, when one's hand takes it up, that hand immediately attains Buddhahood, and when one's mouth chants it, that mouth is itself a Buddha' (WND-1, 1099).

"Even in times of suffering and hardship, if we continue chanting Nam-myoho- renge-kyo, our lives, just as they are, will shine as entities of the Lotus Sutra [the Mystic Law], and we will be able to positively transform our situation in accord with the principle of 'changing poison into medicine.'

"The lay nun Ueno was able to pull herself out of her profound grief following the deaths of her husband and youngest son and open the way for a happy future for her family and loved ones."

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

* 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--
INORINAKI KODO WA
KUTEN TO TEITAI NO IN!
ROROTO DAIMOKU O TONAE
MINAGIRU SEIMEIRYOKU DE
TAITAN NI UGOKI KATARE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ISSAI SHUJO NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO TONAURU YORI HOKANO YURAKU NAKINARI KYONI IWAKU 'SHUJO SHOYURAKU' UNNUN KONO MON ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1143)


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