Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
All of you are chanting for the happiness of many members - children of the Buddha - in your respective communities, you support and encourage them and work tirelessly on their behalf as if they were your own children. Your actions are truly those of great bodhisattvas, your state of life that of noble Buddhas.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Let others hate you if they will. What have you to complain of, if you are cherished by Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, and the Buddhas of the ten directions, as well as by Brahma, Shakra, and the gods of the sun and the moon? As long as you are praised by the Lotus Sutra, what cause have you for discontent?"
The Unity of Husband and Wife
Written to Nichigen-nyo on January 27, 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Why are human beings born? This question has posed a great challenge. Josei Toda lucidly set forward his conclusion. Namely, that this world is a place for people to, as the Lotus Sutra states, "enjoy themselves at ease." We were born here in order to thoroughly savour the joys of life. Faith in Nichiren Buddhism enables one to bring forth the great life force needed to lead such an existence.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 January 1953) p.134
Worked vigorously all day. Gave a lecture for the first time this year. Feel I must study harder and harder. Had friends from work over for dinner late in the evening. Talked to our hearts' content about our dreams for the next twenty years.
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