Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Kosen-rufu is a long-term struggle we are pursuing over the 10,000 years of the Latter Day. Therefore, as we strive to realize victory in the present, we need to maintain a vision of the next fifty or 100 years. Each day I am making efforts with my focus on the infinite future.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Lotus Sutra states, "[The doctrines that they preach. . . ] will never be contrary to the true reality." T'ien-t'ai commented on this, saying that "no worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true reality." A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world may be governed.
The Kalpa of Decrease
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
What can the individual accomplish in the face of the huge institutions that run our world? This feeling of powerlessness fuels a vicious cycle that only worsens the situation and increases people's sense of futility. At the opposite extreme of this sense of powerlessness lie the Lotus Sutra's philosophy of three thousand realms in a single moment of life and the application of this teaching to our daily lives. This principle teaches us that the inner determination of an individual can transform everything; it gives ultimate expression to the infinite potential and dignity inherent in each human life.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 June 1949) p.8
I meet lots of artists and writers through my work, many of them considered to be masters. It's disappointing once I actually talk to them.
Those of character are the only great people in the world.
How many people in the arts today are truly worthy of respect?
Maybe artists have a right to be eccentric, but how often they make me run after them, wasting such valuable time!
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