Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Ralph Waldo Emerson says, "Good-nature is plentiful, but we want justice with a heart of steel, to fight down the proud." If people are merely good-natured, then those who are arrogant and high-handed will have free rein to carry on as they please. Only those who fight with hearts of steel are people of justice.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
There are a few in this province of Kai who have expressed their desire to take faith. Yet I make it a rule not to permit them to join us unless they remain steadfast in their resolve. Some people, despite their shallow understanding, pretend staunch faith and speak contemptuously to their fellow believers, thus often disrupting the faith of others.
The Workings of Brahma and Shakra
Written to Nanjo Tokimitsu on May 15, 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
When water is clear, the moon is reflected. When the wind blows, the trees shake. Our minds are like the water. Faith that is weak is like muddy water, while faith that is brave is like clear water. Understand that the trees are like principles, and the wind that shakes them is like the recitation of the sutra. - Nichiren
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 June 1949) p.8
Bought a pair of old shoes. Society holds too many contradictions. Some people are poor, though they live and work honestly. Others live by deceit and never lift a finger, but they lack of nothing. All kinds of people in the world.
Is the one who amasses material possessions the final winner in life?
Absurd! Must examine my own situation and then leap beyond, to show great proof in the future. Isn't that what faith teaches.
Youth, never be envious. Never lose heart.
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