Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 11 October 2011

 

aily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

 

It is important to have a sufficiently elevated life-condition so that you will be able to calmly accept whatever happens in life, striving to put problems into proper perspective and solving them with a positive attitude. Happiness blossoms forth from such a strong and all-encompassing life-condition.

  

 

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

 

Take these teachings to heart, and always remember that believers in the Lotus Sutra should absolutely be the last to abuse one another. All those who keep faith in the Lotus Sutra are most certainly Buddhas, and one who slanders a Buddha commits a grave offense.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 756
The Fourteen Slanders
Written to the lay priest Matsuno Rokuro Saemon on December 9, 1276

 

 

Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

 

It's valuable to look for the strengths in others - you gain nothing by criticizing people's imperfections. In fact, it is helpful to take a step back, for even a moment each day, and try to consider the feelings and positive qualities of others of whom you are critical.

 

 

Sensei on Religion -- Words of Wisdom

  

The Lotus Sutra urges us to resist the dehumanization of religion and religion's tendency to become divorced from reality and to steadfastly redirect religion to its prime focus, that of the human being. When religion departs from the human being, it becomes nothing more than a means for controlling people.