Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
How can we create the greatest value in the short span of a lifetime? Those of us who embrace the Mystic Law know the answer. Our faith in and practice of the Daishonin's Buddhism enables us in this lifetime to solidify the world of Buddhahood in our lives and establish a state of eternal happiness. That is the purpose of faith in the Mystic Law, the purpose of our Buddhist practice.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
I entrust you with the propagation of Buddhism in your province.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1117
The Properties of Rice
Written to the lay priest Takahashi, date unknown
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
You have been able to accept, uphold, read, recite and ponder this sutra and to preach it for others. The good fortune you gain thereby is immeasurable and boundless. It cannot be burned by fire or washed away by water. Your benefits are such that a thousand Buddhas speaking all together could never finish describing them. Now you have been able to destroy all devils and thieves, to annihilate the army of birth and death, and all others who bore you enmity or malice have likewise been wiped out.
Good man, a hundred, a thousand Buddhas will employ their transcendental powers to join in guarding and protecting you. Among the heavenly and human beings of all the worlds, there will be no one like you. -The Lotus Sutra
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (31 October 1950) p.58
Farewell to a memorable October. A month of sufferings and pleasures, of disagreeable experiences and joyful ones.
A month of strife, of the rough billows of reality, of lakes of lyrical emotion and hopes like rainbows in the sky.
The curtain falls on the drama of this precious month.
...
On a vast stage, against the backdrop of nature, appalling scenes of human creation unfold, one after another.
Neither victors nor vanquished know the destiny at work backstage.
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