[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 9th May, 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 10th May, 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, May 9th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The results we will see in the future
depend on the causes we make today.
Let's clearly define the goals we intend to achieve for each day
and chant vigorously to be victorious.
Let's advance full of enthusiasm and vitality!

Thursday, May 9th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(The Nirvana Sutra in essence teaches us that) when persons who have faith in the Buddhist teachings and are determined to free themselves from the sufferings of birth and death grow a little faint in heart, the Buddha inflicts illness upon them in order to encourage them to strive harder. He does so to embolden them, to drive them forward."

(Gosho: In the continent of Jambudvipa - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 2, page 1062)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shinbun, May 9th, 2013

Friday, May 10th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"If there is no hope to be found, let us create it. If there is no light to revel in, let our lives shine like the sun.

"Even a single individual, when he or she allows hope to dawn in their lives, the light it casts will brighten our families, our society and our country, bringing about a sweeping transformation. We call this process of change 'human revolution.'"

SGI Newsletter No. 8760, SGI President Ikeda's Acceptance Speech. On April 22nd, 2013, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) conferred an honourary degree of Doctor of Social Science on SGI President Ikeda, founder of the Soka Schools, at the graduation ceremony of its College of Humanities, held in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Translated May 7th , 2013 from the April 25th, 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun.

* 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--
[MIRAI NO KA] WA
[GENZAI NO IN] NI ARI.
ICHINICHI NO MOKUHYO O MEIKAKU NI
SHORI E NO INORI MO TSUYOKU
HATSURATSU TO ZENSHIN O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"BUPPO O SHINJITE KONDO SHOJI O HANARURU HITO NO SUKOSHI KOKORO NO YURUNARU O SUSUMEMU GA TAMENI EKIBYO O HOTOKE NO ATAE TAMO HAGEMASU KOKORO NARI, SUSUMURU KOKORO NARI"

(Gosho Zenshu pg 1589)



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