Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Youth should not seek an easy comfortable path. No one develops in a pampered environment. Youth should instead actively seek out challenges and hardships, transforming them all into valuable assets as they strive to become individuals of outstanding character and ability.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Carry through with your faith in the Lotus Sutra. You cannot strike fire from flint if you stop halfway. Bring forth the great power of faith, and be spoken of by all the people of Kamakura, both high and low, or by all the people of Japanas "Shijo Kingo, Shijo Kingo of the Lotus school!" Even a bad reputation will spread far and wide. A good reputation will spread even farther, particularly if it is a reputation for devotion to the Lotus Sutra.
Earthly Desires are Enlightenment
Written to Shijo Kingo on May 2, 1272
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, January 31, 2013
A higher religion does not negate rationality. No religion that suppresses human reason can earn the trust of humankind. Buddhism, the "religion of wisdom," is an extremely rational religion. In fact, it is so rational that many Westerners even question whether it can be classified as a religion, since it does not teach the existence of a supreme being in the image of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1960) p.462
Never forget that we become worthy to be called true practitioners of faith only when we, as Gakkai members, live up to the Daishonin's golden words. "However wretched a beggar you might become, never disgrace the Lotus Sutra." (WND, 824)
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