Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The people are most important and noble. President Toda was firmly convinced of this point. And I have advanced with the same spirit. This is also Nichiren Daishonin's undying spirit. Please always treasure and protect this organization of the people that is the SGI.
Events
1928 Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president, is born.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness. The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law. Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion?
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 132-33
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
In Nichiren Buddhism, attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent, godlike Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being. In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future. Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment inner struggle between revealing our innate Dharma nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental darkness and delusion.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1953) p.442
The appointment of a new youth division chief conducted in the main hall of the headquarters. The youth division leaders pledged to advance kosen-rufu into the future.
Now is a crucial time for youth division leaders to courageously break through.
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Will do my best at any meeting to inspire even one or two people to deepen their faith and stand up with a sense of mission. This is the essence of propagation.
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