Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 30 March 2013 - Year of Victory for a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

Saturday, March 30, 2013

 

There are many elements involved in a prayer being answered, but the important thing is to keep praying until it is. By continuing to pray, you can reflect on yourself with unflinching honesty and begin to move your life in a positive direction on the path of earnest, steady effort. Even if your prayer doesn't produce concrete results immediately, your continual prayer will at some time manifest itself in a form greater than you had ever hoped.

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Saturday, March 30, 2013

 

To mix other practices with this Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is a grave error. A lantern is useless when the sun rises. How can dewdrops be beneficial when the rain falls? Should one feed a newborn baby anything other than its mother's milk? No addition of other medicines is needed with a good medicine.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 903

The Teaching for the Latter Day

Written to Nanjo Tokimitsu on April 1, 1278

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

Saturday, March 30, 2013

 

It is important to develop your character to be as powerful as a mighty river. Continue to advance bravely in the face of every challenge, paying no heed to the obstacles in your way. Become a great river of bottomless compassion and wisdom, overflowing with boundless invincibility and passion.

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 Mar. 1960) p.491

 

The cemetery problem (in which cemeteries run by other sects refuse to inter Gakkai members' ashes) is getting out of hand.  How can any religion be so cruel as to refuse the ashes of the deceased?  A sign of the times - of the Latter Day of the Law.  Such an act is tantamount to a religion denying its fundamental mission and thus its failure as a religion.  Told those who have cemetery plots at Taiseki-ji, no matter what religion they belong to, can freely bury ashes there.

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