Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 04 August 2012 - The Year of Developing a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, August 4, 2012   The resolve to accomplish your goals is what counts. If you earnestly put your mind to something, your brain, your body, your environment - everything will start working toward achieving that end.     From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Saturday, August 4, 2012   I spoke out solely because I had long known that the people of Japan would meet with great suffering, and I felt pity for them. Thoughtful persons should therefore realize that I have met these trials for their sake. If they were people who understood their obligations or who were capable of reason, then out of two blows that fall upon me, they would receive one in my stead.   The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 828 Reply to Yasaburo Written to Saito Yasaburo on August 4, 1277     Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, August 4, 2012   In Buddhist terms, the great universe and the self - the great macrocosm and the microcosm are one. Since the self and all phenomena are one, all things are interrelated. Termed dependent origination, this teaching explains that all things weave a single whole in which individuals live in relation to all others. In other words, all beings and phenomena exist or occur because of their relationship with other beings and phenomena, and nothing in either the human or the nonhuman world exists in isolation. All things are mutually related to and interdependent with all other things. They all form a great cosmos maintaining the rhythms of life.     Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.335/36   Listened to Sensei's lecture for the first time in a while.  Worry alone about how long Sensei will live. Sensei!  Sensei! My only wish is that you survive in good health until kosen-rufu is achieved. I thought seriously about Sensei and about the Gakkai headquarters.  I am willing to sacrifice myself.  The prosecutors' interrogation was laden with schemes.  Angry feelings are growing steadily stronger.  We will by all means create a time when truth will win over all.  Must accurately record the facts.