Sunday 18 December 2011

Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 18 December 2011


Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, December 18, 2011 
 
We SGI members devote ourselves to serving the Law, serving humanity. Ours is not an egocentric life. That is why we are busier than others and perhaps don't have as much opportunity for relaxation with our families. Nevertheless, we continue to devote ourselves to others. Ours is the most noble way of life. We must make sure our children can understand and respect our beliefs, our way of life and our dedication. We must make conscious efforts to verbalize and communicate our thoughts and feelings to them. Finding the wisdom for this task is an expression of our faith.

  
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, December 18, 2011 
 
In commenting on this passage, I have this to say: Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
 
The Selection of the Time
This treatise, counted among Nichiren Daishonin's five major writings and written at Minobu in the first year of Kenji (1275)  

 
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, December 18, 2011 
 
Live with a dancing spirit. The stars in the heavens are dancing through space, the Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing: the trees with the wind, the waves on the sea, the birds, the fish, all are performing their own dance of life. Every living thing is dancing, and you must keep dancing too, for the rest of your life!

 
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1953) p.134
 
Worked vigorously all day.  Gave a lecture for the first time this year.  Feel I must study harder and harder.  Had friends from work over for dinner late in the evening. Talked to our hearts' content about our dreams for the next twenty years.


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