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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Dec. 29th, 2021 + Daily Encouragement Dec. 30th

* Just to give you the heads up...Seikyo Newspaper will stop its printing presses for the next two days so there will be no "To My Friends," BUT we will carry on with everything else! So here is the last "To My Friends" for this year...

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

Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
We'd like to express our deepest 
appreciation to our deliverers,
local reporters, and everyone 
who has been promoting 
and supporting Seikyo Newspaper 
and all our other SGI publications!
We wish you all a happy 
and peaceful New Year!

Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Since childhood, I, Nichiren, have never prayed for the secular things of this life but have single-mindedly sought to become a Buddha. Of late, however, I have been ceaselessly praying for your sake to the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha, and the god of the sun, for I am convinced that you are a person who can inherit the soul of the Lotus Sutra."

(The Hero of the World 
- WND, Vol. 1, page 839)
Selection Source: 
Learning from the Wisdom of Buddhism, 
Seikyo Newspaper, Dec. 29th, 2021

Thursday, December 30th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Those possessed by a great devil will, once they succeed in persuading a believer to recount, use that person as a means for making many others abandon their faith.'

– From 'The Workings of Brahma and Shakra' (WND–1, 800).

"In this writing, Nichiren Daishonin calls on his young disciple Nanjo Tokimitsu to protect his fellow practitioners who are striving for kosen-rufu.

"We mustn't let negative influences disrupt our faith. When we see devilish functions for what they are, they will disperse. I hope each of you, as a protagonist of kosen-rufu, will stand as firm and unshaken as a rock.

"The Soka Gakkai is a harmonious community of practitioners dedicated to truth and justice, directly connected to Nichiren Daishonin, the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law. Let's warmly encourage and support our precious fellow members, advancing in solid unity of purpose with confidence, wisdom and optimism." 

Spreading the Brilliant Light of the Daishonin's writings, [51] Strive as Unshakeable Protagonists of Kosen-rufu! Translated from the September 3rd, 2021, issue of the Seikyo newspaper, translation released December 2021. 


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

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
HONSHI NO HAITATSU NI KAKAWARU MINASAMA
TSUSHIN IN SHINBUN CHO O HAJIME
SEIKYO O SASAETE KUDASARU
SUBETE NO KATAGATA NI DAIKANSHA!
KOFUKU ANNON NO SHINNEN O!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
NICHIREN WA WAKAKI YORI KONJO NO INORI NASHI TADA HOTOKE NI NARANTO OMOU BAKARI NARI SAREDOMO TONO NO ONKONO OBA HIMANAKU HOKEKYO SHAKABUTSU NITTEN NI MOSU NARI SONO YUEWA HOKEKYO NO INOCHI O TSUGU HITO NAREBA TO OMOU NARI
(Gosho Zenshu page 1169)

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