Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
What will the future be like? No one knows the answer to that question. All we know is that the effects that will appear in the future are all contained in the causes that are made in the present. The important thing, therefore, is that we stand up and take action to achieve great objectives without allowing ourselves to be distracted or discouraged by immediate difficulties.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
It seems to me that on the path to attain Buddhahood it may invariably be when one has done something like lay down one's life that one becomes a Buddha. I think that perhaps it is encountering such difficulties as have already been explained in the sutra being cursed, vilified, attacked with swords and staves, shards and rubble, and banished again and again that is reading the Lotus Sutra with one's life. My faith springs up all the more, and I am confident about my next existence.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 202
Banishment to Sado
Writen to Enjo-bo in October 1271
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
If you remain sincere in your interactions with others, you will one day find yourself surrounded by good friends. And among those people, your friendships will be as strong and unshakable as towering trees. Don't be impatient. Work first on developing yourself, and you can rest assured that an infinite number of wonderful encounters await you in the future.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (1957) p.333
In the afternoon, Z., Hiromasa and I went to see the Japan International Trade Fair. Surprised at the large number of people. Science is rapidly increasing its importance in society. People must not fall behind. To know the times, to live with the times and to create the times – forgetting this will lead to grave problems. Sense the arrival of the "Age of Automation" more keenly than ever before. Reported what we saw at the fair to Sensei. A scientist himself, he listened with apparent interest. "We must think about science and religion" were his only words of guidance.
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