Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, May 5, 2012
This is what I would like to communicate to you, my young friends who are the heirs of the Soka legacy: Live out your lives together with the SGI, an organization fulfilling the Buddha's decree! Our activities in the organization of faith constitute our Buddhist practice, lead to the realization of kosen-rufu and enable us to carry out our human revolution. To think selfishly, "I'll just practice on my own and however I like" cannot be called correct faith. Such a person is a Buddhist in name only; they are not true practitioners.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Be diligent in developing your faith until the last moment of your life. Otherwise you will have regrets. For example, the journey from Kamakura to Kyoto takes twelve days. If you travel for eleven but stop with only one day remaining, how can you admire the moon over the capital?"
Letter to Niike
Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo in February 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, May 5, 2012
When you encounter a wall, you should tell yourself, "Since there is a wall here, a wide, open expanse must lie on the other side." Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1955) p.235
Physical condition extremely poor. Is it destiny? Karmic retribution? The result of past slander?
No spirit, no will. I am like someone on the brink of death. The cherry blossoms of the springtime of my youth have now fallen and scattered. Ho sad! Must devote myself to chanting daimoku consistently. My only choice is to spur myself on powerfully, to show actual proof the Buddhism's strictness and of the strict power of my own determination.
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