Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, September 15, 2014
I hope that each of you will realize success in your respective fields, fully recognizing that success means not giving up halfway but resolutely pursuing the path you have chosen. To this end, it is also important that you realize that the place where you work is a place for forging your character and growing as a human being. By extension, therefore, it is a place for your Buddhist practice, a place for practicing and deepening your faith. When you view things from this angle, all your complaints will disappear. No one is more pathetic than someone who is constantly complaining.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, September 15, 2014
The deeper the roots, the more luxuriant the branches. The farther the source, the longer the stream. All sutras other than the Lotus Sutra have shallow roots and short streams, while the Lotus Sutra has deep roots and a distant source. That is why the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai stated that the Lotus Sutra would survive and spread even in the evil latter age.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 940
The Father the Source, the Longer the Stream
Written to Shijo Kingo on September 15, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, September 15, 2014
When one is deluded, it is as if one were dreaming. And when one is enlightened, it is as if one had awakened - Nichiren
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (11 December 1956) p.310
My mother wept openly. She has traveled the last fifty years of her journey of life with my father. No one can possibly understand my mother's feeling or state of mind. It has been a long, happy and difficult journey. My mother's tears of genuine love transcend everything – intellect, status, affluence or vanity. Ah, my simple, yet extraordinary mother and father. The sorrow of being separated from a loved one. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
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