[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 👑 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + Friday, June 3rd 💂🏻 Daily Encouragement

* Apologies for the delay, Internet problems! Here we go...(Hope you have or having a great day!)  

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

Thursday, June 2nd, 👑2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us,
"You cannot strike fire from flint 

if you stop halfway."*
Let's continue our efforts 

to sincerely talk with our friends
until we reach a point 

where we understand each other
and can empathise with each other.
With undying enthusiasm, 

let's never give up!

*"Carry through with your faith in the Lotus Sutra. You cannot strike fire from flint if you stop halfway." - "Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment" (WND, Vol.1, page 319)

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Even a feeble person will not stumble if those supporting him are strong, but a person of considerable strength, when alone, may fall down on an uneven path."

(Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 598)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin," 

Seikyo Newspaper, June 2nd, 2022

Friday, June 3rd, 👑 2022

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
""From the perspective of the Buddha, all people possess the Buddha nature. The attainment of Buddhahood by all people and the equality of all people are the very essence of Buddhism. We are all Buddhas, and that is precisely why we respect one another.

"As the Lotus Sutra states: 'if you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha' (LSOC 28, 365). Showing such respect to the Buddha nature in others, as the Daishonin says, 'is like the situation when one faces a mirror and makes a bow of obeisance: the image in the mirror likewise makes a bow of obeisance to oneself' (OTT, 165)."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating The World, [74] Expanding Our Gathering of Courageous Individuals Who Treasure the Dignity of Their Own and Others' Lives, Respecting Each Other as Buddhas, June 2021 issue of Daibyaku Renge -the  Soka Gakkai study journal, translation released April 2022.  

-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"HI O KIRUNI
YASUMINUREBA HI O EZU"
TOMO O KYOKAN SHIAERU MADE
SEIJITSU NI KATARI NUKO!
FUTO FUKUTSU NO HONOO MOYASHITE!

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

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KAI NAKI MONO NAREDOMO TASUKURU MONO TSUYOKEREBA TAOREZU SUKOSHI KENAGE NO MONO MO HITORI NAREBA ASHIKI MICHI NIWA TAORENU
(Gosho Zenshu page 1468, New Gosho Zenshu page 1940)

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