Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 30 October 2012 - The Year of Developing a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, October 30, 2012   The Gohonzon is the concrete manifestation of the very existence of Nichiren Daishonin, who taught kosen-rufu. Because of that, if you only practice gongyo and chant daimoku and don't take any other action for the sake of kosen-rufu or improving your own life, the Gohonzon will not have its true, full effect. If, however, you take actions to achieve kosen-rufu, they will serve as that extra push for your own life and help you leap to higher and higher states of mind in your gongyo and chanting as well.     From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Tuesday, October 30, 2012   Shakyamuni's practices and the virtues he consequently attained are all contained within the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo. If we believe in these five characters, we will naturally be granted the same benefits as he was.   The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 365 The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind Established in the Fifth Five-Hundred-Year Period af the Thus Come One's Passing Written to Toki Jonin on April 25, 1273     Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, October 30, 2012   If you allow the passing of time to let you forget the lofty vows of your youth, you stand to block the source of your own boundless good fortune and sever the roots of limitless prosperity for your family and loved ones as well. Please never let this happen. Only by remaining steadfast to the vows we have made in our youth can we shine as true victors in life.     Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1958) p.393   Still have a slight fever.  Listless all day.  If I don't become healthy within this year, it will be a great problem.  My human revolution is a serious, life-or-death struggle.   Read Sensei's essay – for publication (in the Daibyakurenge).  He writes: "You must give what benefits others."  To provide what supremely benefits others means to carry out propagation, does it not?  Aren't we convinced the Mystic Law is the greatest source of benefit?  Throughout his life, he was a mentor whose actions always accorded with his words.