[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 2nd July 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho ; 3rd July, 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
My truly trustworthy fellow members of the Greater Kanto* Region!
With our dynamic spirit of many in body, one in mind,
let's break down those barriers that stand right ahead of us!
And brimming with our courageous fighting spirit,**
let's take concrete and decisive action
that will achieve an absolute victory of Soka!

* Kanto is the region that includes Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa.
** Fighting spirit in Japanese is also pronounced Kanto though the Chinese characters for it are different from the ones used to refer to the Kanto area.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"You must simply make up your mind. Look at the world this year as a mirror. The reason that you have survived until now when so many have died was so that you would meet with this affair. ... This will determine whether you win honour or disgrace your name."

(Reply to Yasaburo - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 829)
Selection source: Gosho study for YWM, Seikyo Shimbun, June 25th, 2013

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"If we use an irresponsible senior leader as an excuse to justify retreating in faith, we are the ones who will lose out and suffer in the end. The fact that someone else's actions are wrong does not make it right to respond in such a way. The right course of action in Nichiren Buddhism is to persevere in faith, no matter what happens. If we do so, we will be able to carry out our human revolution, transform our karma, and build a happy life.

"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Whether tempted by good or threatened by evil, if one casts aside the Lotus Sutra [Nam-myoho-renge-kyo], one destines oneself for [a life-state of] hell' (WND-1, 280).

SGI Newsletter No. 8791, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 26: Chap. 2, Banner of the Law 34, translated 28th June, 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--
SHINRAI SURU DAIKANTO YO!
ITAI DOSHIN NO MOSHIN DE
ME NO MAE NO KABE O YABURE!
KANTOSEISHIN O TAGIRASE
SOKA KANSHO NO KETTEIDA O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TADA HITOENI OMOIKIRU BESHI KOTOSHI NO SEKEN O KAGAMI TO SEYO JAKKAN NO HITO NO SHINURUNI IMAMADE IKITE ARITSURUWA KONO KOTO NI AWAN TAME NARIKERI ... NA O AGURU KA NA O KUDASU KA NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1451)


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