Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The organization of faith is not something that holds you back or restricts you. Rather, it is a springboard that enables you to develop yourself to the utmost and to lead the most dynamic existence. It is the most precious place for carrying out our Buddhist practice.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, December 13, 2012
I have heard that you are suffering from illness. Is this true? The impermanence of this world is such that even the healthy cannot remain forever, let alone those who are ill. Thoughtful persons should therefore prepare their minds for the life to come. Yet one cannot prepare one's mind for the next life by one's own efforts alone. Only on the basis of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, the original teacher of all living beings, can one do so.
Encouragement to a Sick Person
Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter in 1264, when he was forty-three. Its recipient was Nanjo Hyoe Shichiro.
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Life is a chain. All things are related. When any link is disturbed, the other links will be affected. We should think of the environment as our mother -- Mother soil, Mother Sea, Mother Earth. There is no crime worse than harming one's mother.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1958) p.426
Stayed at the headquarters until late. Concerned about the salary of the headquarters staff.
Cannot help sensing that more hardships await us next year. How many are willing to take full responsibility and fight this noble battle to spread the Law? The road ahead is severe.
It was December 12 - the winter of 1950... Recalled the poem Sensei composed during the difficulties with his publishing company, the Nihon Shogakkan:
Amidst the ferocious blizzard,
A man, courageous and persistent, walks on,
Gladdened by the love of his comrades.
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