Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Leaders who are responsible for organizing and holding discussion meetings in the SGI must study. If they do not, they cannot hope to satisfy the participants and inspire them with fresh energy and enthusiasm.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Question: Why do you alone spew forth such evil words about other people? Answer: I, Nichiren, am not condemning others. I am only pointing out the questionable places in their doctrines. If they want to get angry at me, then let them!".
Letter to Shomitsu-bo
Written to Shomitsu-bo in 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
What was the secret to Thomas Edison's success? He explained that it was to never give up before he succeeded in what he was trying to do. Not giving up -- that's the only way. Once you give up you are defeated. This is equally true in the realm of faith. Quitting is not faith. We have to keep chanting until our prayers are answered. That is the correct way of prayer.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) P 356/357
Read Collected Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Though he is not a favorite of mine, I am surprised at the excellence of his style and descriptiveness. He may be one of Japan's great literary masters.
A sense of mission and hope is welling up from deep within me that sometime during my lifetime, I will record for posterity a record of President Toda's life. Want my mind to become clear and precise.
In the quiet of the late night, my wife, beautiful in her Japanese kimono, brings me tea. The clock reads 1:10 a.m.
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