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Sunday, October 31, 2021

[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] 31st Oct. 🎃 2021 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 1st Nov. Daily Encouragement

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

Sunday, October 31st, 2021
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
For those who decide to practice 
"the faith of absolute victory,"
our lives will shine with
unlimited good fortune and benefit.
Through chanting daimoku 
with this decisive conviction,
let's open the throttle full up 
and charge ahead 
towards accomplishing our mission. 
And together, 
let's shout victorious cheers!

Sunday, October 31st, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."

(On Prayer - WND, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection Source: 
Buddhist Teaching - Earnest Prayer, 
Seikyo Newspaper, Oct. 31st, 2021

Monday, November 1st, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin says: 'To uphold the body of the Buddha means to uphold the belief that outside of our own bodies there is no Buddha' (OTT, 97).

"It is essential that we 'uphold the character myo' with the conviction that we each possess the supremely respectworthy life state of Buddhahood. 'Uphold' here means to maintain steadfast faith until the very end.

"Stead fast" means making a new determination each day, challenging ourselves each day and advancing, growing and triumphing each day." 

The Buddhism of the Sun--Illuminating the World, [68] Be Victors in the Journey of Life and Kosen-rufu, Maintaining Steadfast Faith Means Challenging Ourselves Each Day, December 2020 Daibyaku Renge Monthly Study Journal, translation released October 2021. 
 

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

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"ZETTAI SHORI NO SHINJIN" NI
SAIKO NO FUKUTOKU GA KAGAYAKU.
KONO KETSUJO SHITA INORI DE
SHIMEI NO MICHI O HASHIRINUKO!
TOMODOMONI EIKO NO KACHIDOKI O!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARUBEKARAZU
(Gosho Zenshu page 1351)

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