Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, December 5, 2014
If you practice faith yet have an attitude of complaint, you will destroy your good fortune in direct proportion. Those who are full of complaint are not respected by others. From both Buddhist and secular perspectives, their behaviour does not befit a wise or worthy person.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, December 5, 2014
Money serves various purposes according to our needs. The same is true of the Lotus Sutra. It will be a lantern in the dark or a boat at a crossing. At times it will be water, and at other times, fire. This being so, the Lotus Sutra assures us of "peace and security in this life and good circumstances in the next."
This letter was written to Hojo Yagenta, a lay believer in Kamakura in 1274
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, December 5, 2014
Inconspicuous virtue brings conspicuous reward. From the perspective of Buddhism, we never fail to receive the effect of our actions, whether good or bad; therefore, it's meaningless to be two-faced or to pretend to be something we're not.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (28 December 1957) p. 369
I will only be twenty-nine for a few more days. Soon I will be thirty. I can no longer go on being a spoiled child. Must study. Must develop my true ability. Must fight.
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With each year's passage, I feel my responsibility deepen. Another year of Sensei's lectures and of advancing my own study has ended. As I look back, I keenly sense my growth this year. Deeply, powerfully, toward revealing the actual proof of the inconspicuous benefit of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
Will climb the coming year's new slope.
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