Sunday 31 August 2014

Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 31 August 2014 - Year of Opening a New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, August 31, 2014
 
As long as we pray earnestly and sincerely with all our being, if we have strong and genuine faith, even though results may not be immediately visible, they will definitely manifest without fail in generations of our children and our children's children. I would like all of you to have absolute confidence in this.
 

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, August 31, 2014
 
Believers in the Lotus Sutra should fear those who attempt to obstruct their practice more than they fear bandits, burglars, night raiders, tigers, wolves, or lions even more than invasion now by the Mongols.
 
Letter to the Brothers
Written to Ikegami Muneaka and Ikegami Muneaga on April 16, 1275
 

 
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, August 31, 2014
 
Overcoming the four sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death is not just a matter of theory. We mustn't move away from the issues of how we can lead healthy, fulfilling and long lives, and how we can die without suffering. Buddhism teaches the wisdom that enables us to do this.
 

 
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 April 1956) p.298
 
Today I thought I would like to spend my entire life as a youth in my twenties. Reflected on the principle that 'Buddhahood is inherent in the nine worlds.'
 
Many obstacles and fierce storms lie ahead. But the genuine glory is the glory we gain in winning over these, is it not?
 

 


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