Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, February 10, 2012
Kosen-rufu is a supreme, golden path extending throughout the Latter Day of the Law into the eternal future. Let us continue to advance boldly and intrepidly along this path as Nichiren Daishonin teaches. This is the way world peace will be accomplished. If we do not widely spread the principles and ideals of the Daishonin's Buddhism, there will be no hope for the peace and happiness of humankind.
If even Shariputra, the foremost in wisdom among the disciples of the Buddha, failed to understand people's capacity, then how much more difficult must it be for ordinary teachers today, in the Latter Day of the Law, to have such an understanding! Ordinary teachers who lack an understanding of people's capacity should teach only the Lotus Sutra to those who are under their instruction.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 49
The Teaching, Capacity, Time, and Country
Recipient unknown; written on February 10, 1262
The Teaching, Capacity, Time, and Country
Recipient unknown; written on February 10, 1262
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, February 10, 2012
Nichiren explains that to know oneself is to know all things in the universe. When you change, your environment changes, too. When your inner resolve changes, everything is transformed. This principle is summed up by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's maxim,
"Nothing's outside that's not within."
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1954) p166
Rained all day long. A gloomy day. Have recently deeply realized that life force is the greatest fundamental requirement for happiness.
Live and move within society. Eventually I will die.
For 10,000 people, 10,000 unique lives. Simply amazing. What does equality really indicate? Have come to understand the law of causality inherent in life.
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