Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, February 4, 2013
Please never turn your back on your faith. Courage is crucial. There is no room for faint-heartedness in faith. The timid doom themselves to ridicule - from their partners, from their children, from their friends, from the world at large. The Daishonin declares that there is no place for cowards among his disciples. President Toda said the same.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, February 4, 2013
The Buddha taught that the blessings of a single offering to the votary of this sutra are a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, million times greater than those of offering countless treasures to Shakyamuni for eighty million kalpas. When one encounters this sutra, one will overflow with happiness and shed tears of joy. It seems impossible to repay one's debt to Shakyamuni. But by your frequent offerings to me deep in these mountains you will repay the merciful kindness of both the Lotus Sutra and Shakyamuni Buddha.
Letter to Niike
Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo in February 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, February 4, 2013
You mustn't allow yourselves to grow old before your time. Please live with a youthful spirit. That is what Buddhism teaches us to do, and it is how life ought to be lived. If you make a commitment to work for the sake of others, you will be rejuvenated. If you devote your life to helping others, you'll stay young. The power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo guarantees that.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1960) p.463
Woke up feeling fatigued.
My home is a mess because of the three brave warriors. No place to rest in this castle of mine. This may be proof of their vigor and good health. Hopeful. Happy.
Under the cover of my futon, recollected my boyhood and my youth. The moment of birth, existence form birth to death, the moment of death, and existence from death to next birth - the reality of life. Now I exist in the phase from birth to death, in my youth, embraced by the Mystic Law. Must realize this is the greatest kind of life one can lead.
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