[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 20th Dec. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 21st Dec. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Friday, Dec 20th, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It is through experiencing various hardships
that we can become a person who really understands
other people's sufferings and can guide them to happiness.
To all of our youth,
by confronting the fierce winds of obstacles,
try to establish unshakable confidence in yourself!

Friday, Dec 20th, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Whatever trouble occurs, regard it as no more than a dream, and think only of the Lotus Sutra."

(Letter to the Brothers - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 502)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shinbun, December 20th, 2013

Saturday, Dec 21st, 2013
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The French philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778) declared: 'Friendship and truth must triumph over hatred and perfidy.'[1]

"The saha world in which we dwell is filled with the sufferings of birth, ageing, sickness, and death, and rife with negative influences that can lead to misfortune and misery. But all people possess within them the sun of time without beginning—the Buddha nature—that can break through all sorrow and positively transform any kind of karma, just as darkness vanishes when the morning sun rises in the sky.

"The sublime melody of friendship we create through our Buddhist practice awakens this sun in both ourselves and others, filling each new year and each new day with the light of joy."

SGI Newsletter No. 8894, Engaging in Dialogue to Foster Friendship and Trust, from the January 2014 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 16th Dec. 2013.

[1] Voltaire, Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence, translated by
S. G. Tallentyre (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), p. 63.
* 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--
KURO SHINUITE KOSO
TOMO NO KOKORO GA WAKARU
IDAINA SHIDOSHA NI NARERU.
SEINEN YO REPPU NO NAKADE
FUDO NO JISHIN O KIZUKE!

- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TATOI IKANARU WAZURAWASHIKI KOTO ARITOMO YUME NI NASHITE TADA HOKEKYO NO KOTO NOMI SAWAGURASE TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1088)


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