[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 9th Jan. 2014 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 10th Jan. 2014 Daily Enc.

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

Thursday, Jan 9th, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin warns in his teaching,
"Be millions of times more careful than ever."*
Let's be careful not to catch a cold and/or get the flu.
By washing our hands, gargling, etc,
let's take all possible precautions to stay healthy.

*"As I have said before, be millions of times more careful than ever." - "The Hero of the World", WND-I, page 839

Thursday, Jan 9th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In this chapter Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the foremost point he wished to convey to us. The Buddha preached the Lotus Sutra over a period of eight years, and eight characters sum up the message that he has left behind for living beings in this later age, the Latter Day of the Law. It is in the passage that reads, 'Therefore, Universal Worthy, if you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha' (chapter twenty-eight), particularly the eight characters that make up the end of the passage, 'you should rise and greet him,' etc. "

(Chapter Twenty-eight: Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy, Six important points - The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 192) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, Jan 9th, 2014

Friday, Jan 10th, 2014
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ——
"I would like to present all of you, who are so dear and precious to me, with a poem to celebrate the New Year:

"'Together with friends,
one in heart,
striving joyfully
to win in every struggle
without a single regret.'

"I proudly salute you, my beloved fellow members everywhere! I am chanting with the fervent resolve that my daimoku will reach each and every one of you."

SGI Newsletter No. 8906, Building a Citadel of Capable People Dedicated to the Cause of Good,from 4th Jan., 2014, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun translated 6th Jan. 2014

* 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--
"HYAKUSENMANOKUBAI
GOYOJIN ARUBESHI"
KASE YA RYUKAN NI CHUI!
TEARAI UGAI NADO
YOBO O BANZEN NI!

- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO HON NO TOKI SAIJO DAIICHI NO SODEN ARI SHAKUSON HAKKANEN NO HOKEKYO O HACHIJI NI TODOMETE MATSUDAI NO SHUJO NI YUZURI TAMAU NARI HACHIJI TOWA TOKI ONGO TONYO KYOBUTSU NO MON NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 781)


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