Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
There is no need for you to be impatient. If you can achieve something very easily right from the start, you will find no sense of fulfillment or joy. It is in making tenacious, all-out efforts for construction that profound happiness lies.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
A passage from the Lotus Sutra reads that it is "the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand. " Many hear about and accept this sutra, but when great obstacles arise, just as they were told would happen, few remember it and bear it firmly in mind. To accept is easy, to continue is difficult. But Buddhahood lies in continuing faith.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 471
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith
Written to Shijo Kingo on March 6, 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
When we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the good and evil capacities of our lives begin to function as the exalted form of fundamental existence. Lives that are full of the pain of hell, lives that are in the state of hunger, lives warped by the state of anger -- such lives too begin to move in the direction of creating their own personal happiness and value. Lives being pulled toward misfortune and unhappiness are redirected and pulled in the opposite direction, toward good, when they make the Mystic Law their base.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1954) p.182
Would like to develop the habit of reading, even if only a little, every morning. Will go to Hokkaido in August. Boundless plains; land that I adore! I will deeply breathe the fresh air. Feel almost choked by the hustle and bustle of Tokyo . When can I travel to the United States , Australia or Europe ? For me, it may be in the distant future. But I must definitely go, to carry out my mission for kosen-rufu. Thought until midnight about many things. My mind is clear.
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