Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Friendship is strong. Friendship, camaraderie and unity in faith lie at the heart of the SGI. They come before the organization. We must never make the mistake of thinking that it is the other way around. The organization serves as a means for deepening friendship, comradeship and faith. To confuse the means and the end is a terrible mistake.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will be your staff to take you safely over the mountains of death. The Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, as well as the four bodhisattvas headed by Superior Practices, will lead you by the hand on your journey. If I, Nichiren, precede you in death, I will come to meet you at your last moment. If you should precede me, I will be sure to tell King Yama all about you. Everything that I tell you is true. According to the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren is the guide who knows the passes and gorges along the way."
The Swords of Good and Evil
Written to Hojo Yagenta on February 21, 1274
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, February 21, 2013
There is no way of life more desolate or more pitiful than one of ignorance of the fundamental joy that issues from the struggle to generate and regenerate one's own life from within. To be human is much more than the mere biological facts of standing erect and exercising reason and intelligence. The full and genuine meaning of our humanity is found in tapping the creative fonts of life itself.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1960) p.472
In the evening, lectured on "The fourteen Slanders" at Ryogoku Civic Hall. Struck by the earnestness and seeking spirit of those who came. Keenly felt my lack of study. Resolved once again to never grow arrogant.
It was cold on my way back. Took a cab home.
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Opened Collected Essays of Lu Xun, which reads: "What is a road? It is trodden where there was not a road; it is blazed through brambles. There was a road before, and there will be one forever."
My wife is so beautiful. Is she mending clothes for our children?
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