[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 3rd May, 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 4th May, 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Friday, May 3rd, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Through the great shared struggle of mentor and disciple,
the light of Buddhism is now radiantly shining all over the world.
Let's proudly hoist the banner of truth and justice high
and gracefully dance a dance of victory for the new era.
Together,
let's fulfill the great vow of achieving kosen-rufu!

Friday, May 3rd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 790, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 214) Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shinbun, May 3rd, 2013

Saturday, May 4th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Reaching out to support and sincerely listening to those who are suffering constitute the actions of a bodhisattva. Nichiren Daishonin describes bodhisattvas as those who care for others more than themselves and who impart good to others and bear the brunt of evil themselves (cf. WND-2, 201).

"To empathise with the suffering and sorrow of others, to take on others' hardships as if they were our own, and to impart hope and courage to all—this is the essence of what it means to be a bodhisattva."

SGI Newsletter No. 8757, Encouragement for Soka Educators, (3) Illuminating Your Communities with the Light of Education—Part 1 [of 3], from the April 28th, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 30th April 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--
SHITEI NO DAITOSO DE
BUPPO NO HIKARI WA SEKAINI SANZEN.
SEIGI NO HATA TAKARAKANI
SHINJIDAI E GAIKA NO MAI O!
KOFU DAIGAN E TOMONI!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNENNI OKORUNARI IWAYURU NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 790)


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