[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 11th Sep. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 12th Sep. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, Sept 11th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"You cannot strike fire from flint if you stop halfway."*
It's when we are in the midst of severe hardships
that it's vital to have steadfast faith.
No matter what, at the very end of the day let's come out the victors!

Gosho - "Carry through with your faith in the Lotus Sutra. You cannot
strike fire from flint if you stop halfway." (Earthly Desires Are
Enlightenment, WND1-page 319)

Wednesday, Sept 11th, 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, September 11th, 2013

Thursday, Sept 12th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Rising from his sickbed one day, President Toda said to a young man: 'Study the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism thoroughly! . . . My approach to Buddhist study is to focus on the heart—to focus on what the Daishonin is teaching us about faith. Make that your approach to Buddhist study, too!'"

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

* 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--
[HI OKIRU NI
YASUMINUREBA HI OEZU]
KONNAN NO TOKI KOSO
GOJO NA SHINJIN O TSURANUKE!
DANJITE SAIGO NI KATE!

-- 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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