Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, March 6, 2014
There is no need for you to be impatient. If you can achieve something very easily right from the start, you will find no sense of fulfillment or joy. It is in making tenacious, all-out efforts for construction that profound happiness lies.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, March 6, 2014
A passage from the Lotus Sutra reads that it is "the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand." Many hear about and accept this sutra, but when great obstacles arise, just as they were told would happen, few remember it and bear it firmly in mind. To accept is easy, to continue is difficult. But Buddhahood lies in continuing faith.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 471
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith
Written to Shijo Kingo on March 6, 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, March 6, 2014
When we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the good and evil capacities of our lives begin to function as the exalted form of fundamental existence. Lives that are full of the pain of hell, lives that are in the state of hunger, lives warped by the state of anger -- such lives too begin to move in the direction of creating their own personal happiness and value. Lives being pulled toward misfortune and unhappiness are redirected and pulled in the opposite direction, toward good, when they make the Mystic Law their base.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 October 1953) p.149
Y. has become a bit conceited. It's become necessary for him to receive strict guidance. If I act humbly toward him, he's all the more arrogant. I seem to be the only one who can scold him or guide him correctly.
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