Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Faith enables us to secure ultimate victory. It enables us to live with vigour and joy and to strive to improve ourselves - to become the very best people we can be. Moreover, faith enables us to walk through life with complete assurance and confidence, unafraid of anything.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Our worldly misdeeds and evil karma may have piled up as high as Mount Sumeru, but when we take faith in this sutra, they will vanish like frost or dew under the sun of the Lotus Sutra.
Letter to Niike
Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo in February 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Religion must teach an "attitude to life." To live a life of true human dignity is certainly difficult. Life is change; it is continuous change. Nothing is constant. The four sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death are an eternal theme that no one can escape.
Amid harsh reality, people yearn from the depths of their beings to live with dignity and for their lives to have meaning, and they make efforts toward that end. The product of these human yearnings, these prayers, is religion. Religion was born from prayer. What is Nichiren's response to these prayers of human beings? What attitude toward life does he teach? The answer, in short, is the principle of attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (02 August 1950) p.41
Talked with Mr. Toda for about an hour. He seems to be facing extreme difficulty. It's prolonged torture for me, too. He places great hope in his future plans. It's too bad that things haven't gone as he wished.
I will keep fighting, displaying all the ability and character I possess.
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