[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 23rd Oct. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 24th Oct. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, Oct 23rd, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Gosho says: "Regard your service to your lord
as the practice of the Lotus Sutra."*
Our workplace, where we each have a very unique role to play,
is the very place in which we can truly train ourselves as human beings.
Let's succeed through sincerity and effort.

(*)"Reply to a Believer," WND 1, p. 905, "Regard your service to
your lord as the practice of the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by
'No worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true
reality."

Wednesday, Oct 23rd, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(This sutra is superior to all other sutras.) It is like the lion
king, the monarch of all the creatures that run on the ground, and
like the eagle, the king of all the creatures that fly in the sky."

(The Sutra of True Requital - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 929)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, October 23rd, 2013

Thursday, Oct 24th, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Prepared to risk even arrest and imprisonment, Madame Deng Yingchao, who was loved as the "mother of the people" in China, valiantly fought back against the Gang of Four. With pride, she declared: "Should my lips be split or my tongue burnt, still I will not stop [speaking out],"[1] and "Those who refuse to bow their head or retreat in the face of difficulty, those who remain strong and resolute, will definitely achieve victory."[2]

SGI Newsletter No. 8856, from the SGI Newsletter No. 5277, The above is an excerpt from SGI President Ikeda's speech at the 20th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting held in conjunction with the Chugoku Region Youth Peace General Meeting, in Tokyo on September 5, 2002, issued 17th Oct. 2013

[1] Translated from Chinese. Jin Feng, Deng Yingchao zhuan (Chronicle of Deng Yingchao) (Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 1993), p. 456.
[2] Translated from Chinese. Deng Yingchao, Deng Yingchao wenji (Deng Yingchao Writings) (Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 1994), p. 107.

* 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--
[ONMIYAZUKAI O
HOKEKYO TO OBOSHIMESE]
WAGA SHIMEI NO SHOKUBA KOSO
NIGEN RENMA NO DOJO NARI.
SEIJITSU TO DORYOKU DE KATE!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"(KONO KYOMON WA ISSAIKYO NI SUGURETARI) CHI HASHIRU MONO NO O TARI
SHISHIO NO GOTOSHI SORA TOBU MONO NO O TARI WASHI NO GOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1310)


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