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Saturday, July 29, 2017

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 29.7.2017 To My Friends and Daily Gosho plus 30.7. Daily Encouragement

 

A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.

Saturday, July 29th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our SGI's brass band, chorus group
and fife and drum corps members, 
thank you all so much for your enthusiastic performances at various local events.
The hope-filled voices and tunes that you sing and play are indeed "Wonderful Sounds"
that spread joy and happiness throughout our local communities and enrich the hearts of our friends.

Saturday, July 29th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honour, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure."

(The Eight Winds - 
WND, Vol. I, page 794)
Selection source: For YMD gosho study meetings, Seikyo Shinbun, July 29th, 2017

Sunday, July 30th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"
The German poet Schiller once wrote: 'The strong [person] is strongest when acting alone.'"

SGI Newsletter No. 9664, The Human Revolution (Second Edition)––Vol. 1: Chap. 5, "Standing Alone"—Part 3 [of 3], translation released 24th July, 2017

* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
KAKUCHI NO GYOJI NI ISAMI NOZOMU
ONGAKUTAI KOTEKITAI NI KANSHA!
MINASAMA NO KIBO NO SHIRABE KOSO
CHIIKI NI KANKI O HIROGE
TOMO NO KOKORO O URUOSU MYO-ON NARI.

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KENJIN WA HAPPU TO MOSHITE YATSU NO KAZE NI OKASARENU O KENJIN TO MOSU NARI URUOI OTOROE YABURE HOMARE TATAE SOSHIRI KURUSHIMI TANOSHIMI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1151)

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