Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 01 April 2013 - Year of Victory for a Youthful SGI

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

Monday, April 1, 2013

 

Emerson writes: "And so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains." Cheerfulness is not the same as frivolousness. Cheerfulness is born of a fighting spirit. Frivolousness is the reverse side of cowardly escape. Emerson also said that "power dwells with cheerfulness, hope puts us in a working mood." Without cheerfulness there is no strength. Let us strive to advance still more brightly and cheerfully.

 

Events

1974 SGI President Ikeda gives his first university lecture, at UCLA.

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Monday, April 1, 2013

 

This teaching was not propagated in the Former or Middle Day of the Law because the other sutras had not yet lost their power of benefit. Now, in the Latter Day of the Law, neither the Lotus Sutra nor the other sutras lead to enlightenment. Only Nam-myoho-renge-kyo can do so. This is not my own judgement. Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, the Buddhas of the ten directions, and the bodhisattvas who emerged from the earth as numerous as the dust particles of a thousand worlds have so determined it.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 903

The Teaching for the Latter Day

Written to Nonjo Tokimitsu on April 1, 1278

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

Monday, April 1, 2013

 

At all times I think to myself: How can I cause living beings to gain entry into the unsurpassed way and quickly acquire the body of a Buddha? -The Lotus Sutra

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (29 Mar. 1960) p.493

 

Must advance with the people throughout my life.

Must continue to talk with ordinary people and live my life for ordinary people.

The second anniversary of President Toda's passing approaches.  People both within and outside our religion will gradually come to understand his greatness.  But it is his disciples' responsibility to make that happen. 

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