[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 25th Sep. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 26th Sep. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, Sept 25th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The days are beginning to get shorter.
Be extremely cautious of traffic accidents especially when night begins to fall.
Remember that negligence and carelessness are our biggest enemies.
Let's make it a point to verbally remind each other
so that we can all stay absolutely safe.

Wednesday, Sept 25th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one
understand for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning
has been the Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(Ongi kuden - Gosho zenshu, page 788, The Record of the Orally
Transmitted Teachings, page 211)

Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, September 25th, 2013

Thursday, Sept 26th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"No matter how humanity advances, the fundamental sufferings of human existence—birth, aging, sickness, and death—will always remain with us. No one is without problems or suffering of some kind. Everyone is struggling with some aspect of their karma, their life.

"But we all possess within us the light of hope that can break through and dispel the greatest sorrow and darkest despair. Nichiren Buddhism teaches the way for illuminating the entire world with that light, starting with one person courageously shining with hope, which will then spread to a second, a third, and a hundred, and eventually to people everywhere.

"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'The Lotus Sutra offers a secret means for leading all living beings to Buddhahood. It leads one person in the realm of hell, one person in the realm of hungry spirits, and thus one person in each of the nine realms of existence to Buddhahood, and thereby the way is opened for all living beings to attain Buddhahood' (WND-1, 512). We can all attain Buddhahood. We can all triumphantly open the life-state of Buddhahood within us."

SGI Newsletter No. 8841, Editorial, Change Starts with One Person, from the October 2013 issue of the Dai- byaku-renge, translated 18th 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--
NICHIBOTSU GA HAYAMARU JIKI.
USUGURAI YUGATA YA YAKAN NO
KOTSU JIKO NI CHUI!
[YUDAN TAITEKI] DA.
MINA DE KENMEI NA KOEGAKE O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI
DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKA NO
DAIKANKI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 788)


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