Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 02 January 2015 - Year of Dynamic Development in the New Era of Worldwide Kosen Rufu

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

Friday, January 2, 2015

 

The people are most important and noble. President Toda was firmly convinced of this point. And I have advanced with the same spirit. This is also Nichiren Daishonin's undying spirit. Please always treasure and protect this organization of the people that is the SGI.

 

Events

1928 Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president, is born.

 

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Friday, January 2, 2015

 

The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness. The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law. Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion?

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 132-33

Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man

Recipient unknown; written in 1265

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

Friday, January 2, 2015

 

In Nichiren Buddhism, attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent, god-like Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being. In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future. Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment inner struggle between revealing our innate Dharma nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental darkness and delusion.

 

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 April 1958) p.391

 

Have watched over Sensei's body for one week, in accord with his wishes. Today is our final parting. How sad. How mournful. Savored the golden words, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers" (WND, 217)