[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 1st Sep. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 2nd Sep. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Sunday, September 1st, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
What is important in life is that
we make an unceasing effort to improve ourselves.
Setting detailed goals helps us to challenge ourselves
with a strong sense of purpose and enthusiasm.
Let's make each and every day a fresh new departure point in our growth.

Sunday, September 1st, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"However, as for the matter of becoming a Buddha, ordinary people keep in mind the words 'earnest resolve' and thereby become Buddhas."

(The Gift of Rice - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1125)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's guidance, Seikyo Shimbun, September 1st, 2013

Monday, September 2nd, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"My mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, while imprisoned for his beliefs by the wartime Japanese militarist authorities, awakened to the fact that the Buddha is life itself and proclaimed his identity as a Bodhisattva of the Earth.

"In a defiled age when people's lives were being trampled by the scourge of war, Mr. Toda embraced the supreme principles of respect for the dignity of life and human revolution. After the war, he called forth one Bodhisattva of the Earth after another from throughout the desolate and shattered land.

"He consistently encouraged those who were struggling with life's harsh realities, telling them: 'We are Bodhisattvas of the Earth, who have intentionally chosen to be born as we are, suffering from many problems, to spread the Mystic Law. Once you fully recognise this, the day will surely come when you can declare from the bottom of your heart, "I have won!"'

"The Bodhisattvas of the Earth, whose lives are one with the Mystic Law, fear nothing. Transforming even the heaviest karma into mission and freely and joyfully carrying out their human revolution, they can impart limitless hope, courage, and confidence to those who are struggling or suffering."

SGI Newsletter No. No. 8826, Fulfilling Our Unique Mission in This World, from the September 2013 issue of the Daibyaku Renge, translated 16th Aug. 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--
JINSEI WA TSUNENI KOJO DA.
GUTAITEKINA MOKUHYO WA
KOKORO NI HARI O UMU.
HINI HINI ARATANI
SEICHO NO FUSHI O KIZAMO!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TADASHI BOMPU WA KOKOROZASHI TO IU MOJI O KOKOROETE HOTOKE NI NARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1596)


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