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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 6th Feb. 2019 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 7th Feb. Daily Encouragement

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

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All human beings posses

unlimited power and potential.

When you feel as if you have

reached your wits end,

that there is nothing more you can do

this is only the result of a weak spirit.
With strong powerful chanting,

let's break through whatever

those walls or barriers might be!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."

(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the
Lotus Sutra, Emerging from the Earth chapter

- OTT, page 214)

Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"

Seikyo Shinbun, Feb. 6th, 2019

Thursday, February 7th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Understanding and repaying one's debts of gratitude means realising that we are who we are because of everyone in our lives, and striving for the happiness of those around us out of a sense of gratitude. This is what enables us to treasure the person in front of us. When we do so, we are able to free ourselves from the pain of loneliness and forge heart-to-heart connections with other people. We can expand our life state and enrich our own humanity as well as that of others."

The Buddhism of the Sun - Illuminating the World, [36] To My Dear Friends of the Youth Division - Part 4 [of 5], Humanism - Action Based on Gratitude is the Essence of Nichiren Buddhism, The Principle of Action for Restoring Humanity, April 2018 Daibyaku-renge, translation released January 2019

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

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SUBETE NO HITO NI
MUGEN NO CHIKARA GA ARU.
GENKAI O KIMETE IRUNOWA
JIBUN NO YOWAI KOKORO DA.
TSUYOKI INORI DE KABE O YABURO!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNENNI OKORU NARI IWAYURU NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 790)

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