Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Buddhism is reason. It is vital therefore, that our lives and our activities in society also accord with reason. Please manifest the principle of "faith equals daily life," so that you will be trusted, respected and emulated by others. Bringing fragrant flowers of trust and humanism to bloom throughout society is one of the goals of Buddhism. To do things that others find strange and unnatural, that run counter to common sense—such actions go against the basic tenets of Buddhism and amount to slander of the Law.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, January 10, 2015
There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin , page 385
The True Aspect of All Phenomena
Written to Sairen-bo Nichijo on May 17, 1273
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, January 10, 2015
The twentieth century was a century of war and peace, a century of politics and economics. The dawning twenty-first century holds the promise, however, to be a century of humanity and culture, a century of science and religion. Advance on this wonderful new path of humanism with pride and confidence, as gallant philosophers of action.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (21 May 1958) p.397
"Good fortune." There are people who have fortune and others who do not, both among those who practice faith and those who do not. The mysterious essence of life.
Effort, intellectual capacity, education, heredity… Pondered how these relate to fortune.
Kusunoki Masashige had three sons: Masatsura, Masatoki and Masanori. I am now also a father of three: Hiromasa, Shirohisa, and Takahiro. What path of destiny will these three take? Lately, as a father, cannot help thinking about these things.
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