[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 4th Feb. 2014 To My Friends and Daily Gosho + 5th Feb. 2014 Daily Enc.

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

Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Gosho teaches us that
"Buddhahood lies in continuing faith."*
The power to establish a solid life condition of happiness
lies in unrelentingly continuing to maintain our practice.
By not letting ourselves swing back and forth
between feelings of joy and sorrow in response to our circumstances,
let's boldly advance with absolute composure!

*Gosho: "Many hear about and accept this sutra, but when great
obstacles arise, just as they were told would happen, few remember it
and bear it firmly in mind. To accept is easy; to continue is
difficult. But Buddhahood lies in continuing faith.",
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith - WND1- pg. 471)

Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is extremely rare to be born as a human being. Not only are you
endowed with human form, but you have had the
rare fortune to encounter Buddhism. Moreover, out of the Buddha's many
teachings you have encountered the daimoku, or the title, of the Lotus
Sutra and become its votary."

(Letter to Jakunichi-bo - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1,page 993)
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism", Seikyo Shimbun, Jan 26th, 2014

Wednesday, February 5th, 2010
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I have seen many members facing various kinds of struggles and challenging themselves through their Buddhist practice. There were even times I wondered when they would ever be able to change their karma, but today each of them has developed a life state of true happiness.

"I have seen hundreds of thousands of such examples. If you continue practicing strongly, there is nothing to worry about. I hope you will persist in your Buddhist practice with confidence and a sense of security."

SGI Newsletter No. 8921, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 26: Chap. 3, Valiant Leaders 37, translated 28th Jan. 2014

--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
[JOBETSU WA TAMOTSU NI ARI]
KOFUKU KYOGAI O KIZUKU CHIKARA WA
JIZOKU O TSURANUKU SHINJIN.
IKKI ICHIYU SEZU
YUZEN TO SUSUMIYUKE!

- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SORE JINSHIN O UKURU KOTOWA MARENARU NARI SUDENI MARENARU JINSHIN O
UKETARI MATA AIGATAKI WA BUPPO KOREMO MATA AERI ONAJI BUPPO NO NAKA
NIMO HOKEKYO NO DAIMOKU NI
AITATEMATSURU KEKKU DAIMOKU NO GYOJA TO NARERI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 902)


------------------------------------

If you have a friend(s) who would like to get To My Friends directly get them to send an E-mail to the following address and just simply write - "subscribe"
: SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk

from there on it is all automatic!

ALSO if you want to introduce a friend to the SGI but just don't know where to start, share with them the following addresses and they can read and watch some very well put together explanations about the SGI. Check it out yourself!

http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practise

Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote

http://www.nichirenlibrary.org

And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site

http://treasures-of-heart.com/

To unsubscribe from this group send an email to:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-unsubscribe@egroups.com

But do drop us a line at sjlmg@wta.att.ne.jp when you leave and tell us why you are leaving as it often can help us to improve the service! Please!

To modify your subscription from receiving daily to picking up as you wish go to http://www.egroups.com/mygroupsYahoo Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-digest@yahoogroups.co.uk
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.co.uk

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk

<*> Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to:
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/uk/yahoo/utos/en-gb/details.html