Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, March 3, 2012
What is youth? The French philosopher Roger Garaudy suggests that while most people believe a person is born young and then ages and dies in reality, acquiring youth in the deepest sense is a very long and challenging process. The youth of which he speaks is the spiritual strength not to stagnate or grow resistant to change but to stay ever open to new possibilities. It is the power of the spirit that refuses to succumb to complacency and strives forward.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, March 3, 2012
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
On Attaining Buddhahood in this Lifetime
Written to Toki Jonin in 1255
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, March 3, 2012
It all comes down to you. I hope you won't rely on others or wait for them to do something. Try to develop such a strong sense of responsibility that you can stand up to the fiercest storms, confidently proclaiming, "I'll do it. Just watch me!" Please confront reality, look it squarely in the face, and with guts, wisdom and strength, challenge everything that lies ahead of you.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1954) p.178
Nothing is more beautiful or worthy of respect than the human mind. But, on the other hand, nothing can be so ugly. However much our technological society has progressed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this truth about the human mind never changes. This is because the principle 'three thousand realms in a single moment of life' illustrates the essence of life.
First, I must firmly establish this as my perspective on life. Then, I must perform a dance on the grand stage of kosen-rufu. Will overcome the storms of my youth.
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