[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 18th Nov. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 18th-24th Nov. 2013 Words of the Week

* The Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism Library has been launched, commemorating November 18th, Soka Gakkai Day. The site introduces foundational scriptures of Nichiren Buddhism and Soka Gakkai International.
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/

Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Monday, November 18th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
For the sake of the happiness of all people
and the light for a peaceful world--
this is the vow of the SGI.
Renewing our determination with a refreshed pure spirit,
let's advance together towards this hope-filled, monumental undertaking!

Monday, November 18th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If Nichiren's compassion is truly great and encompassing, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will spread for ten thousand years and more, for all eternity."

(On Repaying Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 736) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's epitaph, Seikyo Shimbun, November 18th, 2013

November 18th-November 24th, 2013
--- WORDS OF THE WEEK ----
The Soka Gakkai Founding Day is also
the day that the Soka Gakkai First President
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi died a martyr for his beliefs.
Let's never forget this most stern and unwavering spirit of the SGI.
Let's all advance with the spirit and courage of a lion king!

*On November 18, 1944, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi died in prison of old age and malnutrition. To the end he refused to recant or compromise his beliefs, dying a martyr to the values of peace and human happiness--the values that had informed and motivated the activities of a lifetime. (ref. - http://www.tmakiguchi.org/religiousreformer/asreligiousreformer/unwaveringconviction.html)

* 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--
ZENMINSHU GA KOFUKU NI!
SEKAI NI HEIWA NO HIKARI O!
KOREGA WARERA NO NEGAI DA.
SEISHIN NA KETSUI DE
TOMONI KIBO NO DAIKENSETSU E!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NICHIREN GA JIHI KODAI NARABA NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO WA MANNEN NO HOKA MIRAI MADEMO NAGARU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 329)

-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
"SORITSU NO HI" WA
SENSHI NO "JUNKYO NO HI" NARI.
SHUNGEN NARU GAKKAI SEISHIN O
DANJITE WASUREMAI.
"SHISHIO NO KOKORO" DE SUSUME!


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