[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 17th Dec. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 18th Dec. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, Dec 17th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
I hope that leaders will do absolutely all they can to protect
the privacy of members, no matter what!
The bonds of trust we share with each other
are the very lifeline of our organisation.

Tuesday, Dec 17th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only
within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus
Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 832)
Selection source: Gosho study for Kayokai, Seikyo Shimbun, Decmeber 10th, 2013

Wednesday, Dec 18th, 2013
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Myo [of Myoho (the Mystic Law)] means to revive, that is, to return to life' (WND-1, 149). The Mystic Law is an infinite, all-invigorating source of energy.

"When we live our lives based on this Law, we can transform the sufferings of birth, ageing, sickness, and death, and forever advance on the path of eternity, happiness, true self, and purity. We will gain complete peace of mind, and be able to transform anything negative that happens in our lives into something positive, in accord with the Buddhist principle of 'changing poison into medicine.'"

SGI Newsletter No. 8888, 2nd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting held outdoors at the Okinawa Training Centre in Onnason, in conjunction with the Okinawa Prefecture General Meeting, on December 8, 2013., Setting Sail into a New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu, from 10th Dec., 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated 11th Dec. 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--
LEADER WA KAIIN NO
"PRIVACY" O
ZETTAI NI MAMORU KOTO!
GAKKAI NO SOSHIKI WA
SHINRAI KOSO SEIMEISEN DA.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO GOHONZON MATTAKU YOSO NI MOTOMURU KOTO NAKARE TADA WARERA SHUJO
NO HOKEKYO O TAMOCHITE NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO TO TONAURU KYOCHU NO
NIKUDAN NI OWASHIMASU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1244)


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