Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, September 7, 2012
Freedom doesn't mean an absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. This is true freedom.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, September 7, 2012
The blessings from making offerings to a votary of the Lotus Sutra in the latter age exceed even those from making offerings to a Thus Come One endowed with the ten honorable titles, while those who persecute a votary of the Lotus Sutra in the defiled age will have their heads split into seven pieces.
Letter to the Lay Nun of Ko
Written to the lay nun of Ko on June 16, 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, September 7, 2012
How painful and frightening is the prospect of death for human beings! No matter how wealthy or powerful we may be, all is vanity before death. Everything is empty, like a dream or an illusion. But people do not face this fact. Nichiren Buddhism teaches us that we can transform our karma and attain a supremely peaceful death that is the start of a journey to our next lives.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.358
Morning gongyo is difficult, both spiritually and physically. Received a message from Sensei saying, "Look after things well while I'm away."
Sensei! Please don't die until kosen-rufu is achieved! I, too, must survive.
Deeply, powerfully determined. Quietly, naturally reflected on Sensei's guidance: how to view the times; how to raise able individuals; how to judge a person's character; the merits and weaknesses of Nobunaga's leadership; of Hideyoshi's and Ieyasu's.
(Oda Nobunaga was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century, which ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. His work was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.)
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