[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 10th Sep. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 11th Sep. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, Sept 10th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The greatest strength and treasure of our movement is capable people.
It is people who are capable of doing things that have the greatest impact.
Let's each reach out to one person and then yet another
in order to help raise yet more able people.
Herein lies the hope for the future!

Tuesday, Sept 10th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(When the bodhisattva Never Disparaging makes his bow of obeisance to
the four kinds of believers, the Buddha nature inherent in the four
kinds of believers of overbearing arrogance is bowing in obeisance to
the bodhisattva Never Disparaging. ) It is like the situation when one
faces a mirror and makes a bow of obeisance: the image in the mirror
likewise makes a bow of obeisance to oneself."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 769, The Record of the Orally
Transmitted Teachings, page 165)
Selection source: President Ikeda's Essay: Our Grand Path to Victory,
Seikyo Shimbun, September 10th, 2013

Wednesday, Sept 11th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"A youth who shared a friendship with the great German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) in the latter's later years confessed that though he enjoyed spending time with kindred spirits, he had nothing to do with others beyond this circle. Goethe responded with the following advice:

"'It is in conflict with natures opposed to his own that a man must collect his strength to fight his way through; and thus all our different sides are brought out and developed, so that we soon feel ourselves a match for every foe. You should do the same; you have more capacity for it than you imagine; indeed, you must at all events plunge into the great world, whether you like it or not.'[1]

"The important thing, when all is said and done, is to apply ourselves to our human revolution and continue practising with steady faith that is like flowing water. The Soka Gakkai is our training ground in this effort.

"The bright inspiration generated by our human revolutions is building a realm of precious 'good friends' in faith and serving as a light of hope for the future, illuminating the darkness shrouding our times."

SGI Newsletter No. 8835, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [50] "Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain." Be "Good Friends" Who Illuminate People's Lives with the Light of Compassion and Wisdom, from the March 2013 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 6th Sep. 2013

[1] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by John Oxenford (New York: Da Capo Press, 1998), p. 59.

* 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--
JINZAI KOSO TAKARA NARI.
JINZAI KOSO CHIKARA NARI.
HITORI MATA HITORI TO
ATARASHI HITO O NOBASU.
KOKO NI MIRAI NO KIBO GA!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"(FUKYO BOSATSU NO SHISHU O RAIHAI SUREBA JOMAN NO SHISHU SHOGU NO
BUSSHO MATA FUKYO BOSATSU O RAIHAI SURU NARI) KAGAMI NI MUKATTE RAIHAI
O NASU TOKI UKABERU KAGE MATA WARE O RAIHAI SURU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 769)


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