Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The important thing is to hold on resolutely to one's convictions come what may, just as the Daishonin teaches. People who possess such unwavering conviction will definitely become happy.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Buddhism teaches that, when the Buddha nature manifests itself from within, it will receive protection from without. This is one of its fundamental principles.
The Three Kinds of Treasure
Written to Shijo Kingo on September 11, 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, January 25, 2015
You cannot judge the quality of another's friendship by superficial appearances, especially when things are going smoothly. It is only when we have experienced the worst, most crushing of times - when we have plumbed the depths of life - that we can experience the joys of genuine friendship. Only a man of principle, a woman of resolve - a person who stays true to their chosen path - can be a trusted and true friend and have real friends in turn.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 July 1958) p.408
Any society is complex, and things do not go as one wishes. Conflicts in the human world. There seems to be nothing as beautiful or as ugly as the human realm.
Buddhism transforms the realm of impermanence into that of eternity, true self and purity.
Cool all day. Want to live for ten or twenty more years. Want to show the clear actual proof of my mentor before I die.
I ses^shuju ho.
Mai ji sa ze nen.
I preach various doctrines for them.
At all time I think to myself…
- (LS16, 232)
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