[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 28th Aug. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 29th Aug. 2013 Daily Enc.

* Sorry for the great delay today. We are now making our final moves back home! We are now all back in Japan. From tomorrow we should be back up to normal speed.

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

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin says:
"My wish is that all my disciples make a great vow."*
To the extent to which we deepen our resolve
we are able to throw open the doors to a promising future.
Together let's have hope for the future and make a fresh new departure!

*Gosho - The Dragon Gate - WND1, page 1003

Wednesday, August 28th, 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: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, August 28th, 2013

Thursday, August 29th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Each of us is a protagonist, a person responsible for creating world peace and happiness for all humankind. Let's set forth together in this effort, with the awareness that we are the pioneers of human revolution, leaders of world peace, and champions who will build the future.

"The Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881–1936) said: 'You don't need to ask what is required now; ask what you can do!'[1]

"I am continuing my struggle of words, for the sake of the eternal victory of my dear disciples.

"Life is an unending challenge. The important thing is for each of you to open the way, even if only a little, with new ideas, new determinations, and new actions. If you can do that, the foundations of the SGI will become even more solid and secure, and the great path of peace that is kosen-rufu will unfold ever more widely. That is the way to ensure the arrival of the triumphant dawn when the human revolution of each one of us leads to a fundamental transformation in the karma of all humanity.

"As mentor and disciple,
let's together achieve a brilliant
human revolution."

SGI Newsletter No. 8830, Our Brilliant Path to Victory, The 20th Anniversary of Starting The New Human Revolution, from the August 10th, 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 28th Aug., 2013

[1] Translated from Japanese. Lu Xun, Rojin no Kotoba: Rojin Shingen (Words of Lu Xun: Lu Xun Quotes), translated by Sunao Nakamura (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2011), p. 207.

* 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--
[NEGAWAKU WA WAGA DESHI
DAIGAN O OKOSE]
KETSUI GA FUKAI HODO
MIRAI WA OKIKU HIRAKARERU.
TOMO NI KIBO NO SHIN SHUPPATSU 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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