Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday January 30, 2014
Buddhism teaches that "all phenomena in the universe are manifestations of the Law" (Gosho Zenshu, p. 564). I hope you will, with this understanding, engage yourselves in broad-ranging studies with vigour and determination. Your brains have a potential as vast and boundless as the universe. How then do we manifest the brain's full creative powers? There is only one way to bring out our full intellectual capacity: by constantly putting our minds to work.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday January 30, 2014
My disciples, you should believe what I say and watch what happens. These things do not occur because I myself am respect worthy, but because the power of the Lotus Sutra is supreme. If I praise myself, people will think that I am boastful, but if I humble myself, they will despise the sutra. The taller the pine tree, the longer the wisteria vine hanging from it. The deeper the source, the longer the stream. How fortunate, how joyful! In this impure land, I alone enjoy true happiness and delight.
A Sage Perceives the Three Existences of Life
Written to Toki Jonin in 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday January 30, 2014
Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through intense human interaction engaging the entire personality that people can forge themselves, raising themselves up to ever-greater heights.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (30 January 1953) p.135
The Gakkai headquarters leaders meeting…
Felt it to be miniature world of Buddhas and bodhisattvas who have passionately arisen to achieve kosen-rufu. It is apparent however, that steep mountains and violent storms await us. Will it be possible to achieve kosen-rufu in our time? Or will it be 50, 100, 200 years from now? In the end, there is no other way for me but to devote this life, until I die, to the battle of propagation, with a determination, conviction and dream for two hundred years from now.
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