[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 8th Sep. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 9th Sep. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Sunday, Sept 8th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Towards the completion of
our new Soka Gakkai Headquarters
(on November 18th, 2013),
let's all walk together brimming with hope!
Now is the time for us to create a new history.
In the place where we are right now,
the very place for us to fulfil our unique missions,
let's live out a victorious drama
accomplishing outstanding achievements!

Sunday, Sept 8th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What greater joy could there be?"

(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 767) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's message, Seikyo Shimbun, September 8th, 2013

Monday, Sept 9th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Start by setting goals. The important thing in setting goals is to make them as concrete as you can. You can write them down on a piece of paper and paste it up somewhere where you'll see it.

"You may set a broad goal, such as to read more good books, but find that, as time passes, your resolve starts to fade.... But if you make your goal specific... you will be able to find a practical way to do it....

"When you reach the goal you set for the day, you will have written another page in the story of your human revolution. You will feel that you are growing and changing little by little. You will gain the self-confidence that you can succeed if you try, which will make you want to take up the next challenge.

"The Daishonin writes: 'The situation is like the joints in a piece of bamboo: if one joint is ruptured, then all the joints will split' (WND-1, 512). When you break through one obstacle, you create a powerful forwards momentum.

"It's important that you set your own goals, and strive to achieve them in your own way. There is no need to compare yourself to others and diminish your own efforts. Set goals that you want to achieve and that will give you a sense of accomplishment.

"Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, the founding president of the Soka Gakkai and a great educator, declared: 'An arrow aimed at a vague target will not hit its mark.'[1] In our prayers and in our personal challenges, being specific is all-important."

SGI Newsletter No. 8831, Dialogue for the Future: Traveling the Path of Victory Together with You, [12] Challenge Yourselves and Grow, from the 1st April, 2013, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, translated 30th Aug. 2013

[1] Translated from Japanese. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Makiguchi Tsunesaburo Shingenshu (Selected Quotes of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi), edited by Takehisa Tsuji (Tokyo: Daisanbunmei-sha, 1979), p. 29.

* 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--
SOHONBU KANSEI E
KIBO NO DAIKOSHIN!
REKISHI O TSUKURU TOKI WA IMA.
WAGA SHIMEI NO TENCHI DE
DODOTARU GAIKA NO MAI O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KOREHODO NO YOROKOBI OBA WARAEKASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 914)


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