[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 26th Oct. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho plus 27th Oct. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, Oct 26th, 2013
— TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's always try to be prepared for any natural disasters.
Let's also remind, once in a while,
those senior citizens who might be living on their own.
Such caring bonds within our local community
are imperative.

- Sorry, slight error in yesterday's information about the study exams being held in Japan, they are on the 24th Nov. not the 14th.

Saturday, Oct 26th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Since you now appear certain to attain Buddhahood, perhaps the heavenly devil and evil spirits are using illness to try to intimidate you. Life in this world is limited. Never be even the least bit afraid!"

(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1109) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 26th, 2013

Sunday, Oct 27th, 2013
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ——
As Nichiren Daishonin writes in a letter to his young disciple Nanjo Tokimitsu, who was battling a serious illness: "One who has fallen to the ground recovers and rises up from the ground" (WND-1, 1108). If you fall down, pick yourself up again. Every time you do, you will become stronger. There is no trial that you cannot overcome through chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. There is no problem that you cannot positively transform through faith in the Mystic Law, changing poison into medicine.

SGI Newsletter No. 8857, The Youth of the SGI Are the Hope of Humanity, from the November 2013 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated 18th Oct. 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--
SHIZEN SAIGAI ENO
SONAE O BANZEN NI!
TANSHIN NO KOREISHA TO NIWA
FUDAN KARA KOEKAKE O!
CHIIKI NO KIZUNA GA JUYO DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SUDENI HOTOKE NI NARUBESHI TO MIESORAEBA TEMMA GEDO GA YAMAI O TSUKETE ODOSAN TO KOKOROMI SOROKA INOCHI WA KAGIRI ARU KOTONARI SUKOSHIMO ODOROKU KOTO NAKARE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1587)


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