[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 2nd May 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 3rd May 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Negligence and carelessness are our biggest enemies.
Don't be the cause of an accident
or create the causes to get caught up in one!
The Gosho reminds us to use our "prudence and courage."*
It's important to start the day
based on chanting with a sincere and firm prayer!

* Gosho - The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra", WND-I, page 1000, "It is a matter of rejoicing that your usual prudence and courage, as well as your firm faith in the Lotus Sutra, enabled you to survive unharmed."

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."

(Happiness in This World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 681)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shinbun, May 2ndt, 2013

Friday, May 3rd, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"If you find it difficult to smile, then at least try to speak in a pleasant tone.

"...The Mongolian poet Gombojavyn Mend-Ooyo, once said: 'Nothing is more powerful than words. Depending on how they are used, they can function as 'words of light' that brighten people's hearts.'[1]

SGI Newsletter No. 8758, Dialogue for the Future: Travelling the Path of Victory Together with You, [8] Having Appreciation for One's Parents, translated May 2nd, 2013 from the December 1, 2012, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal

[1] Translated from Japanese. From an article in Seikyo Shimbun, April 13, 2008.

* 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--
YUDAN TAITEKI DA!
JIKO O OKOSU NA!
MAKIKOMARERU NA!
[SAKIZAKI NO YOJIN] DA.
SHINKEN NA INORI KARA SHUPPATSU!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KU OBA KUTO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKUTO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO UCHITONAE ESASETAMAE KORE ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJONO SHINRIKI O ITASHITAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1143)


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