Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Daishonin's words are guiding principles that have universal, eternal relevance. It is important to study his writings. And it is especially crucial that the members of the youth division gain a solid grounding in Buddhist study. The two ways of practice and study are important. A half-hearted attitude will not allow you to complete these two paths. That would be a truly sad thing.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
In describing the first, second, and third of the five stages of practice, the Buddha restricts those at these stages from practicing precepts and meditation, and places all emphasis upon the single factor of wisdom. And because our wisdom is inadequate, he teaches us to substitute faith for wisdom, making this single word "faith" the foundation.
On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice
Written to Toki Jonin on April 10, 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Many today regard any kind of belief and religious faith, in particular as somehow in opposition to reason or at the very least as a sort of paralysis of the faculty of reason. There are, indeed, fanatical religions in which faith opposes reason. But it is an erroneous leap of logic to assume on this basis, and without any evidence, that all religions are so. That itself is irrational and can be characterized as a kind of blind faith in its own right.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (07 Apr. 1960) p.497
There is a single flower in my room. Don't know what it's called, but in it I can see my wife's loving heart. May the Gohonzon illuminate our home with good fortune for all eternity.
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