Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, May 2, 2014
No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, May 2, 2014
All the other sutras are examples of preaching in accordance with the minds of others, because, when expounding them, the Buddha adjusted himself to the minds of all other living beings. But the Lotus Sutra is an example of preaching in accordance with the Buddha's own mind, because in it the Buddha had all living beings comply with his own mind.
The Teaching That Accords with the Buddha's Mind
Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo on May 2, 1279
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, May 2, 2014
Great people never forget what others have done for them. In fact, having a sense of appreciation makes a person worthy of respect.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (25 June 1954) p.182/83
Awakened by a nightmare. A dream of death – a dream of demons; it was a long, long dream of death.
Seriously reflecting on my inability to do a perfect gongyo…
A Study Department professors meeting beginning at 5:30. Everyone devoted themselves to their study with serious expressions. Must not fall behind the others. As a future leader, must never neglect study.
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