[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 11th Dec. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 12th Dec. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Wednesday, Dec 11th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all those who offer their homes as meeting places
thank you so much for your constant support and efforts!
Together let's protect these "treasured places" of kosen-rufu.
Let's also be especially considerate and mindful of families
where children are preparing for entrance exams.

Wednesday, Dec 11th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Tell them to be prepared for the worst, and not to expect good times,
but take the bad times for granted."

(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, Vol.1, page 998)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, Decmeber 11th, 2013

Thursday, Dec 12th, 2013
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As the French writer Romain Rolland (1866–1944) observed: 'To think without acting is sleeping. This is the hall of death.'[1]

"Though one may understand Buddhism intellectually, without putting it into practise, one cannot apprehend or experience its true worth."

SGI Newsletter No. 8886, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 26: Chap. 3, Valiant Leaders 22, translated 10th Dec. 2013

[1] Translated from French. Romain Rolland, L'indépendance de l'esprit: Correspondance entre Jean Guéhenno et Romain Rolland (The Independence of the Spirit: Correspondence between Jean Guéhenno and Romain Rolland), in Cahiers Romain Rolland (The Journals of Romain Rolland), (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1975), vol. 23, p. 198.

* 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--
KAIJO TEIKYO NO MINASAMA
ITSUMO ARIGATO!
KOFU NO HOSHO O MINA DE MAMORE!
JUKENSEI GA IRU KAZOKU WA
IMA ICHIJU NO KOKORO KUBARI O.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KARERA NIWA TADA ICHIEN NI OMOIKIRE YOKARAN WA FUSHIGI WARUKARAN WA
ICHIJO TO OMOE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1190)


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