Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, December 7, 2013
It is our hearts that change others' hearts. Friendship changes people. Travellers who pull their capes over their shoulders and brace themselves determinedly against the cold wind naturally relax and change their outlook and actions when warmed by the sun.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, December 7, 2013
A single life is worth more than the major world system. You still have many years ahead of you, and moreover you have encountered the Lotus Sutra. If you live even one day longer, you can accumulate that much more benefit. How precious your life is!"
On Prolonging One's Life Span
Nichiren Daishonin sent this letter in 1279 to the lay nun Toki, the wife of Toki Jonin.
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Peace can never be attained by passively waiting for it. It is necessary for each of us, no matter how weak we may feel we are, to build deep within our hearts a stronghold for peace that can withstand, and in the end silence, the incessant calls for war.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (20 March 1951) p. 101
Those absorbed only in their personal affairs cannot achieve anything great. Without developing ourselves, however, it would be equally impossible to achieve anything of importance. In Buddhism, there is no such thing as sacrifice. With the goal of attaining enlightenment, we strive for kosen-rufu, and awakening to our mission for kosen-rufu enables us to attain Buddhahood. Perhaps this relationship is like that of the earth's revolution around the sun and its rotation on its own axis.
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