Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, January 2, 2014
The people are most important and noble. President Toda was firmly convinced of this point. And I have advanced with the same spirit. This is also Nichiren Daishonin's undying spirit. Please always treasure and protect this organization of the people that is the SGI.
Events
1928 Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president, is born.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, January 2, 2014
The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness. The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law. Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion?
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 132-33
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, January 2, 2014
In Nichiren Buddhism, attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent, godlike Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being. In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future. Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment inner struggle between revealing our innate Dharma nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental darkness and delusion.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (05 December 1952) p.118
The brilliant moon shining in the cold night sky makes me temporarily forget the whirlpool of intense struggle I am in the midst of. How it calms my agitated mind, affording a respite to prepare me for tomorrow and the future! This is the Buddhism of 'the oneness of body and mind.' I have never before been as keenly aware of this principle, in my body, my spirit and my life, as I have this year. Rather, this year I sensed it so deeply I often felt alone or in anguish.
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