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Thursday, July 28, 2022

[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] Thurs. 28th July 2022 To My Friends & Daily Gosho + Fri. 29th July Daily Encouragement

* We have including the Japanese characters for the Daily Gosho for several weeks now, we are going to stop this for a few days to see if this has been the cause of people not receiving our mails. IF you are one of such people, please could you let us know? sjlmg28@gmail.com. Thanks!

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

Thursday, July 28th, 2022
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's not our circumstances 
that determine 
our happiness or unhappiness.
It depends on our life state 
and inner resolve.
Let's develop the type of life state 
that cannot be defeated 
or destroyed by
any kind of difficulty, 
no matter what, 
and subsequently savour 
"absolute happiness"* in our lives!

*"Absolute happiness is something that doesn't change with time; it's eternal and unaffected by external factors, welling forth from the depths of one's life. It is not a transitory thing like worldly status and fortune or some other fleeting satisfaction." 
(ref. https://www.sokaglobal.org/resources/study-materials/buddhist-study/the-wisdom-for-creating-happiness-and-peace/chapter-1-2.html)

Thursday, July 28th, 2022
--- 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: "Kyo no Hosshin," 
Seikyo Newspaper, July 28th, 2022

Friday, July 29th, 2022
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In terms of our Buddhist practice, to 'cast off the transient and reveal the true' means to awaken the awareness that we are heirs to the Buddha's eternal vow and begin our own dauntless efforts for people's happiness. It starts with one person confidently setting forth on the same great path the Buddha vowed to walk. When such deeply committed individuals unite and launch a movement to 'establish the correct teaching for the peace of the land,' they will build a Buddha realm, a realm of security and happiness for all. This is the true meaning of 'casting off the transient and revealing the true' in Nichiren Buddhism."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [77] Awakening to Our "Greater Self" and "Greater Mission," A Buddha in Inner Enlightenment, a Bodhisattva in Outer Action, September 2021 issue of Daibyakurenge.


-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
KO FUKO O KIMERU NOWA
SHUI NO JOKYO DEWA NAI.
WAGA KYOGAI DE ARI ICHINEN DA.
KANNAN O DANKOTO KOEYUKU
"ZETTAITEKI KOFUKU" NO JINSEI O!

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

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU

(Gosho Zenshu page 1351, 
New Gosho Zenshu page 592)

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