Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 26 August 2012 - The Year of Developing a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Sunday, August 26, 2012   We accumulate great good fortune through our earnest prayers, devotion and efforts for the sake of Buddhism, kosen-rufu and humankind. Prayer without action is not the way of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.     From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Sunday, August 26, 2012   It is easy to sustain our concern for someone who is before our very eyes, but quite a different thing when that person is far away, even though in our heart we may not forget him. Nevertheless, in the five years . . . that have already passed since I came to live here in the mountains, you have sent your husband from the province of Sado to visit me three times. How great is your sincerity! It is firmer than the great earth, deeper than the great sea!   The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 933 The Sutra of True Requital Written to the lay nun Sennichi on July 28, 1278   Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Sunday, August 26, 2012   There is no trace of coercion or concern for appearances in Nichiren's behaviour. He looked on those who were suffering, those who were bravely fighting alongside him, as if they were himself in the same situations. He prized each and every one of them. He encouraged them and sympathized with them, and we must never forget that the true essence of humanity is to be found in this. When we observe Nichiren's actions, we are deeply struck by the conviction that this is the way a Buddhist must live.     Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.352   To spend my life with the greatest leader in the world, talk with him and live alongside him, makes me the happiest person in the world.    Met T. in the train.  Sensei said, "Introduce us!" then assuredly said: "If you are an expert on roads, then focusing on roads in Japan alone is still thinking too small.  Please link together as one the roads of the Orient – Korea, China and India."  T. Said, I will rely on you for the realm of the metaphysical, but I will attend to the concrete realities myself," to which Sensei replied, "Yes, but one can only begin to accomplish things in the physical realm when firmly grounded in the metaphysical."