Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 11 August 2012 - The Year of Developing a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, August 11, 2012   Let's read the Gosho regularly. Even just a little is fine. Even a single sentence. Just opening the Gosho is a start. At any rate, let's strive to read the Daishonin's writings. It's important to have the spirit to study the Gosho, to open up the Gosho. Even if you forget what you've read, something profound will have been engraved in the depths of your life.     From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Saturday, August 11, 2012   Even an individual at cross purposes with himself is certain to end in failure. Yet a hundred or even a thousand people can definitely attain their goal, if they are of one mind.   The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 618 Many in Body, One in Mind Written to the lay priest Takahashi on August 6, year unknown     Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, August 11, 2012   One who has mastered himself is truly free. Freedom lies in the heart of the sage, servitude in the heart of the fool.     Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.339   Mentally and physically drained all day.  Prime Minister Nehru of India is now visiting Japan.  At Keio and Waseda universities, he spoke of his love of world peace and humanity and declared, "youth are the world of tomorrow".  Want to visit India, the land from which Buddhism sprung, at the earliest possible opportunity.