Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, October 10, 2014
It doesn't matter in what area, just keep working on your personal revolution to transform and improve yourself in the way most natural for you. The important thing is that you change in some positive way. There is surely no more exhilarating a life than one in which we write our own unique history of human revolution each day. And the growth and transformation we achieve in this way can convince people of the greatness of the Daishonin's Buddhism more eloquently than anything else.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, October 10, 2014
The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 401
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, October 10, 2014
Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage - Nichiren.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (17 July 1957) p.335
I was released today 17th, at 12:10 p.m. Several hundred Osaka members greeted me. Overjoyed. The Gakkai is strong. The Gakkai is right. The Gakkai is the most beautiful of organizations.
For the rest of my life, I shall never forget my friends from Tokyo who rushed to Osaka out of concern for me…
At 1:30p.m. went to Itami Airport to greet Sensei. Shed tears deep in my heart at my mentor's profound compassion. Aware that the concern and worry Sensei has felt for me on this occasion have been deeper than the ocean. Must, by all means, spend the rest of my life repaying my great debt of gratitude to him.
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