Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, October 10, 2013
It doesn't matter in what area, just keep working on your personal revolution to transform and improve yourself in the way most natural for you. The important thing is that you change in some positive way. There is surely no more exhilarating a life than one in which we write our own unique history of human revolution each day. And the growth and transformation we achieve in this way can convince people of the greatness of the Daishonin's Buddhism more eloquently than anything else.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, October 10, 2013
The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 401
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage - Nichiren.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (28 December 1950) p.69
Life is a succession of struggles. But I think the important thing is what we struggle for and what foundation underlies our striving.
The purpose of my own battle being sublime, as long as I have not the slightest particle of regret, it will be a battle of supreme happiness. Now I realize there will be no regrets. Therefore, I have only to march ahead with a smile.
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