Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
I hope that no matter what happens, you will always advance with hope. Especially I hope that the more desperate your circumstances, the more you will press on with unflagging hope. Please keep challenging things with a bright and positive spirit, always taking care at the same time to safeguard your health.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Even if your fiefs should be confiscated or you yourself driven out, you must think that it is due to the workings of the ten demon daughters, and wholeheartedly entrust yourself to them. Had I not been exiled, but remained in Kamakura, I would certainly have been killed in the battle. In like manner, since remaining in your lord's service will likely be to your detriment, this may well be the design of Shakyamuni Buddha.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 824
A Warning against Begrudging One's Fief
Written to Shijo Kingo in July 1277
A Warning against Begrudging One's Fief
Written to Shijo Kingo in July 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Indulgence and indolence produce nothing creative. Complaints and evasions reflect a cowardly spirit; they corrupt and undermine life's natural creative thrust. When life is denuded of the will to struggle creatively, it sinks into a state of hellish destructiveness directed at all that lives.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1951) p. 94
Buddhism is a battle. Whether we are victorious or defeated - doesn't this determine happiness or unhappiness, construction and growth or retreat and ruin? This month again, I must conquer myself, conquer my circumstances, and advance victoriously within society.
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