WEDNESDAY, October 4th, 2006 ( Lantern Fest's eve)

A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

WEDNESDAY, October 4th, 2006-- TO MY FRIENDS --The results we achieve in the futuredepend on the causes we make right now.*One by one, step by step,let's patiently continue to plant the seeds for our dreamsand goals.Let's be victorious in what we are challenging nowso that we will, no doubt, be successful in the future!* "If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present." - "The Opening of the Eyes", WND, page 279

WEDNESDAY, October 4th, 2006--- 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 - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 345) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 4th, 2006