Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, January 3, 2014
Eiji Yoshikawa (1892-1962), the renowned Japanese author of many epic historic novels, asserted, "Great character is forged through hardships." Surviving a life of hardships and difficulties, of stormy ups and downs, is what produces a person of great depth and character. True happiness is also found in such an unshakable state of life.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, January 3, 2014
Just as flowers open up and bear fruit, just as the moon appears and invariably grows full, just as a lamp becomes brighter when oil is added, and just as plants and trees flourish with rain, so will human beings never fail to prosper when they make good causes.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1013
The Third Day of the New Year
Written to Nanjo Tokimitsu on January 11, 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, January 3, 2014
There simply are no Buddhas who spend all their time sitting in meditation. Buddhas are Buddhas precisely because they continually ponder and take action to help others resolve their worries.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (05 December 1952) p.119
The clear sky is more precious than ten thousand gold pieces. There are days when I feel deep gratitude and appreciation for the sun. From the perspective of the great workings of nature, how trivial matters of human conflict or political unrest appear to be! How limited and narrow people are!
A religion like the sun - no, greater, as the universe itself. This is the Daishonin's Buddhism. No philosophy or religion other than this Buddhism can illuminate the darkness of the ten thousand years of the Latter Day of the Law.
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