Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Worldly success and good circumstances based on luck can easily crumble. They are as transient as an illusion. But the state of Buddhahood, once attained, can never be destroyed, not for all eternity. We will enjoy an existence overflowing with good fortune and immense joy in lifetime after lifetime.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, August 29, 2013
[As a youth] he received great wisdom from the living Bodhisattva Space Treasury. He prayed to the bodhisattva to become the wisest person in Japan . The bodhisattva must have taken pity on him, for he presented him with a great jewel as brilliant as the morning star, which Nichiren tucked away in his right sleeve. Thereafter, on perusing the entire body of sutras, he was able to discern in essence the relative worth of the eight schools as well as of all the scriptures.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 650
Letter to the Priests of Seicho-ji
Written to the priests of Seicho-ji temple on January 11, 1276
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered -Nichiren
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (23 September 1950) p.50
Discussion meeting at K.'s.
Composed a poem:
On the desolate plain
I will stand alone, resolutely
Holding aloft the light,
as the child of a great forerunner.
1. Don't neglect self-reflection
2. Remember to advance step by step
3. Don't be swayed by things.
4. Be strict in faith
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