Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
While controlling your mind, which is at once both extremely subtle and solemnly profound, you should strive to elevate your faith with freshness and vigour. When you do so, both your life and your surroundings will open wide before you and every action you take will become a source of benefit. Understanding the subtle workings of one's mind is the key to faith and attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
You also are a practitioner of the Lotus Sutra, and your faith is like the waxing moon or the rising tide. Be deeply convinced, then, that your illness cannot possibly persist, and that your life cannot fail to be extended! Take care of yourself, and do not burden your mind with grief.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 656
The Bow and Arrow
Written to the lay nun Toki on March 27, 1276
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (19 Mar. 1960) p.490
Enjoyed watching the beautiful spring flowers through the train window. Peach blossoms bloomed in white and pink, magnolias in white. Cucumber trees in bloom as well. How beautiful, the yellow fields of March mustard blossoms.
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