Monday, July 30, 2012 Faith enables us to secure ultimate victory. It enables us to live with vigour and joy and to strive to improve ourselves - to become the very best people we can be. Moreover, faith enables us to walk through life with complete assurance and confidence, unafraid of anything.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Monday, July 30, 2012 Our worldly misdeeds and evil karma may have piled up as high as Mount Sumeru , but when we take faith in this sutra, they will vanish like frost or dew under the sun of the Lotus Sutra. The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1026 Letter to Niike Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo in February 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Monday, July 30, 2012 Religion must teach an "attitude to life." To live a life of true human dignity is certainly difficult. Life is change; it is continuous change. Nothing is constant. The four sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death are an eternal theme that no one can escape. Amid harsh reality, people yearn from the depths of their beings to live with dignity and for their lives to have meaning, and they make efforts toward that end. The product of these human yearnings, these prayers, is religion. Religion was born from prayer. What is Nichiren's response to these prayers of human beings? What attitude toward life does he teach? The answer, in short, is the principle of attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.331 More rain. The train was packed. My strength is all but gone. Could not even read the paper while on the train. Neither society nor my life affords me any slack… At 6:00, a farewell gathering for Chapter Chief B., who is being reassigned. Attended with Sensei. The dinner lasted until 10:00. Is M. a person of backbone? Fed up with a life of criticism. Must forge a firm, dauntless character. Returned home alone, without the company of friends.
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