Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 01 November 2011

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

 

 

The Daishonin has taught us that through gongyo and chanting daimoku we can reach an elevated state in which, while engaged in our daily lives, we travel throughout the entire universe. When you worship the Gohonzon, the door to your microcosm is opened to the entire universe, the macrocosm, and you experience a great, boundless joy, as if you were looking out over the entire cosmos. You feel great satisfaction and rejoicing, a great wisdom, as if you held the entire universe in your palm.

 

 

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

 

It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realized this truth. The sutra's statement, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers," cannot be false in any way.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 217
The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life 
Written to Sairen-bo Nichijo on February 11, 1272

 

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

 

Buddhism is not a religion that closes its eyes to people's suffering; it is a teaching that opens people's eyes. Therefore, Buddhism is the path that enables people to become happy. To turn away our eyes from the contradictions of society and rid ourselves of all worldly thoughts is not the way of Buddhist practice. The true spirit of mediation lies in manifesting our innate wisdom in society and resolutely struggling for the happiness of ourselves and others, and to construct a better society.

 

 

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1950) p.68

 

Life is a struggle.  

Yet, even in the midst of struggles, rest is necessary.

And in rest, we can dream of the next ideal.

That ideal must encompass the greatest good for the individual and society.

Then, while striving to realize it, we must arouse the full power of our bodies and minds.

For that purpose, rest is necessary.

After all, we must fight to the end in life -

For the highest ideal, the realization of kosen-rufu.

 

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