Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Daishonin states, "The voice does the Buddha's work" (Gosho Zenshu, p. 708). To chant the Mystic Law is to praise the Gohonzon. Hearing the sound of our daimoku, the heavenly deities will be set into motion and work to protect us. A weak and unclear voice will not move the heavenly deities. That is why it is important for us to chant daimoku with voices that are clear, strong and brimming with joy.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect.
New Year's Gosho
Written to the wife of Omosu on January 5, year unknown
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Buddhism stresses the interconnectedness of all life. It is only the limited capacity of our senses that causes us to place so much stock in the separation between "them" and "us." Because of this interconnectedness, by using violence, you not only injure or destroy the other person but also yourself. Those who use violence and devalue others' lives actually devalue and ruin their own lives.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.354
Home close to 1:00 a.m. Hiromasa** and Shirohisa sleeping soundly. How will they grow up? What will they be like in ten or twenty years? Who can tell? Only the Gohonzon knows.
The "Life Span" chapter reads:
In order to save living beings,
as an expedient means I appear to enter nirvana
but in truth I do not pass into extinction.
I am always here, preaching the Law.*
- (LS16, 229)
*I do shujō ko. Hōben gen nehan. Ni jitsu fu metsu-do. Jō Jū shi seppō.
**(Book: 'My Path of Youth' by Hiromasa Ikeda, the eldest son of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda)
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