Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, February 13, 2012
Remembering things about a person is an expression of compassion and concern. Forgetfulness shows a lack of compassion, a lack of responsibility.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, February 13, 2012
Because I chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with my own mouth, I have been reviled, struck, exiled, and had my life threatened. However, in spite of all this, I have continued to exhort others to do likewise. Am I not then a votary of the Lotus Sutra?"
No Safety in the Threefold World
Written to Matsuno Rokuro Saemon on February 13, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, February 13, 2012
Henry David Thoreau, a renowned American Renaissance thinker, wrote in his journal: "Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." We shouldn't put anything off but seize the moment, living with all our being in the present. If we do that, he says, each moment will become eternity.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1954) p168
Physically very ill. Pitiful. A young revolutionary with a great mission and dream for the future must never die young! I must live so I can show actual proof of my faith by changing my destiny…
Returned home around 10:30. Chapter members were waiting to receive guidance. All were suffering from grave daily-life problems. It made me truly appreciate the life-condition and circumstances I am blessed with.
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