To My Friends & Daily Gosho Feb 8th & Daily Enc. Feb 9th

WEDNESDAY, February 8th, 2006-- TO MY FRIENDS --

Let's try to make every effort to look after all of our fellow memberswho are not able to participate in meetings by encouraging them with kind and caring words! Every single one of us, without exception, has an important and noble mission to fulfil for kosen-rufu!

WEDNESDAY, February 8th, 2006

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"How gratifying! You have associated with a friend in the orchid room andhave become as straight as mugwort growing among hemp.'"

*"A friend in the orchid room" indicates a person of virtue. The implicationis that the company of a virtuous person works as a good influence, just as one is imbued with fragrance on entering a room filled with orchids. It is said that mugwort supported by hemp plants grows upright.

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land - TheWritings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 23)

Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",Seikyo Shimbun, February 8th, 2006

THURSDAY, February 9th, 2006

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"The French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694??778) wrote: 'Build you rown happiness through the happiness of others.'

"SGI Newsletter No. 6719, The New Human Revolution?

Vol. 18: Chap. 2,Gratitude for One?

Mentor 27, translated Feb 7th, 2006

- WAGATOMO NI OKURU

-KAIGO NI

DERARENAI HITO NI

JIAI NO HAGEMASHI O!

HITORI MO MORENAKU

SHIMEI NO HITO DAKARA

"YOROKOBASHIKI KANA NANJI RANSHITSU NO TOMO NI MAJIWARITE MAHO NO SHO TO NARU" (Gosho Zenshu, page 31)