[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 21st Dec. 2013 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 22nd Dec. 2013 Daily Enc.

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

Saturday, Dec 21st, 2013
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's give the best encouragement we possibly can
to those youth members who are challenging themselves
to complete their goals and targets for this year by courageously
guiding their friends to practice this Buddhism!
Knowing that their seniors in faith are sincerely chanting for their victories
and are always there to support them
is the force that will help them to break down all the walls they face.

Saturday, Dec 21st, 2013
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In judging the relative merit of Buddhist doctrines, I, Nichiren, believe that the best standards are those of reason and documentary proof. And even more valuable than reason and documentary proof is the proof of actual fact."

(Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 599) Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, December 21st, 2013

Sunday, Dec 22nd, 2013
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Bodhisattva Never Disparaging of old said that all people have the Buddha nature and that, if they embrace the Lotus Sutra, they will never fail to attain Buddhahood. He further stated that to slight a person is to slight the Buddha himself. Thus, his practice was to revere all people' (WND-1, 756).

"In the Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattva Never Disparaging reaches out to greet and talk with others, conveying his respect for their Buddha nature and awakening them to it.

"Anyone who embraces the Mystic Law will attain Buddhahood. Therefore, even when Bodhisattva Never Disparaging meets with antagonism and hostility, he never lets it deter him from his efforts. He just summons even more life-force, and continues to go about teaching and spreading the Law. His tireless struggle eventually inspires even those who initially scorned him to become his followers and join the ranks of those who uphold the correct teaching of the Lotus Sutra (cf. LSOC20, 310)."

SGI Newsletter No. 8894, Engaging in Dialogue to Foster Friendship and Trust, from the January 2014 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated 16th 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--
HONNEN NO SOSHIAGE E
GUKYO NI KAKERU WAKAKI TOMO NI
SAIDAI NO HAGEMASHI O!
SENPAI NO INORI TO OEN GA
KABE O YABURU CHIKARA TO NARU!

- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NICHIREN BUPPO O KOKOROMIRUNI DORI TO SHOMON TONIWA SUGIZU MATA DORI SHOMON YORIMO GENSHO NIWA SUGIZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1468)


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