Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Encouragement - offering encouraging words - is important. Nichiren Daishonin states, "The voice does the Buddha's work" (Gosho Zenshu, p. 708). Sincere words of encouragement have the power to give people hope and courage to go on living.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Great evil portends the arrival of great good. If all of Jambudvipa were to be thrown into chaos, there could be no doubt that [this sutra would] "be widely propagated throughout Jambudvipa."
The Kalpa of Decrease
Neither the date nor addressee of this letter is known.
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Relationship problems are opportunities to grow and mature. Such problems can be character building if you don't let them defeat you. That's why it's important not to isolate yourself. No one can exist apart from others. Remaining aloof from others cultivates selfishness, which accomplishes nothing.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (03 May 1951) p. 110
Advance! Holding high the banner of the Mystic Law, toward attaining kosen-rufu. Two billion people await us, await the Soka Gakkai's bold advance.
The leaders' faces were clear and bright as the new organization implementation was announced. Everyone in high spirits, each determination, lecture and resolution statement filled with dynamic vigor. I sat by myself in the centre of the meeting, quietly listening to my mentor and the other senior leaders, thinking that no one but Mr. Toda is aware that a lone youth's sights are firmly set on the Soka Gakkai's path ten years into the future.
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