Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, September 15, 2013
I hope that each of you will realize success in your respective fields, fully recognizing that success means not giving up halfway but resolutely pursuing the path you have chosen. To this end, it is also important that you realize that the place where you work is a place for forging your character and growing as a human being. By extension, therefore, it is a place for your Buddhist practice, a place for practicing and deepening your faith. When you view things from this angle, all your complaints will disappear. No one is more pathetic than someone who is constantly complaining.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The deeper the roots, the more luxuriant the branches. The farther the source, the longer the stream. All sutras other than the Lotus Sutra have shallow roots and short streams, while the Lotus Sutra has deep roots and a distant source. That is why the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai stated that the Lotus Sutra would survive and spread even in the evil latter age.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 940
The Father the Source, the Longer the Stream
Written to Shijo Kingo on September 15, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, September 15, 2013
When one is deluded, it is as if one were dreaming. And when one is enlightened, it is as if one had awakened - Nichiren
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (27 October 1950) p.56/57
Personal and family troubles cause people to suffer. These are the most immediate and the most important of problems. Politics, science, institutions, education and so forth all represent attempts to solve certain issues, but for the personal and family problems closest at hand they offer no actual solution. The only fundamental answer lies in a correct faith.
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