Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 03 November 2012 - The Year of Developing a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, November 3, 2012   Buddhism places the highest value on human rights and seeks to ensure that human rights are respected. In caring for just one person, one tries to thoroughly protect and do everything he can for that person. One who respects and embraces the children of the Buddha in this way is a truly capable person and a true leader.     From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Saturday, November 3, 2012   Your boils have resulted from only one offense, slandering the correct teaching. The Mystic Law you now embrace surpasses the moon-loving meditation. How could your boils possibly not be healed and your life span not extended?   The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 634 On Curing Karmic Disease Written to the lay priest Ota Jomyo on November 3, 1275     Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Saturday, November 3, 2012   The Lotus Sutra is a scripture to be practiced. Its teachings are meant to be put into action. Our faith and study of Buddhist doctrine are enhanced and given life through actual practice. Nichiren Buddhism is not a teaching of quiet contemplation and meditation; it is a teaching of action. Failing to translate the teachings of Buddhism into action is to go against Buddhism's fundamental spirit.     Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1958) p.397   "Good fortune."  There are people who have fortune and others who do not, both among those who practice faith and those who do not. The mysterious essence of life.   Effort, intellectual capacity, education, heredity… Pondered how these relate to fortune.   Kusunoki Masashige had three sons: Masatsura, Masatoki and Masanori.  I am now also a father of three: Hiromasa, Shirohisa, and Takahiro.  What path of destinity will these three take?  Lately, as a father, cannot help thinking about these things.