Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, November 6, 2014
To establish meaningful lives, I hope that during your youth you will work hard to polish you intellect. Life, in a sense, is a battle of wisdom. It is the power of Buddhism that enables one to win this battle. True faith is characterized by a brilliance of intellect and depth of wisdom that result from devotion to practice.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, November 6, 2014
In the end, no one can escape death. The sufferings at that time will be exactly like what we are experiencing now. Since death is the same in either case, you should be willing to offer your life for the Lotus Sutra. Think of this offering as a drop of dew rejoining the ocean, or a speck of dust returning to the earth.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1003
The Dragon Gate
Written to Nanjo Tokimitsu on November 6, 1279
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Society is where we put the teachings of Buddhism into practice. The essence of Buddhism shines in our actions in society.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (16 November 1957) p.354
Home close to 1:00 a.m. Hiromasa** and Shirohisa sleeping soundly. How will they grow up? What will they be like in ten or twenty years? Who can tell? Only the Gohonzon knows.
The "Life Span" chapter reads:
In order to save living beings,
as an expedient means I appear to enter nirvana
but in truth I do not pass into extinction.
I am always here, preaching the Law.*
- (LS16, 229)
*I do shujō ko. Hōben gen nehan. Ni jitsu fu metsu-do. Jō Jū shi seppō.
**(Book: 'My Path of Youth' by Hiromasa Ikeda, the eldest son of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda)
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