Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday January 30, 2015
Buddhism teaches that "all phenomena in the universe are manifestations of the Law" (Gosho Zenshu, p. 564). I hope you will, with this understanding, engage yourselves in broad-ranging studies with vigour and determination. Your brains have a potential as vast and boundless as the universe. How then do we manifest the brain's full creative powers? There is only one way to bring out our full intellectual capacity: by constantly putting our minds to work.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday January 30, 2015
My disciples, you should believe what I say and watch what happens. These things do not occur because I myself am respect worthy, but because the power of the Lotus Sutra is supreme. If I praise myself, people will think that I am boastful, but if I humble myself, they will despise the sutra. The taller the pine tree, the longer the wisteria vine hanging from it. The deeper the source, the longer the stream. How fortunate, how joyful! In this impure land, I alone enjoy true happiness and delight.
A Sage Perceives the Three Existences of Life
Written to Toki Jonin in 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday January 30, 2015
Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through intense human interaction engaging the entire personality that people can forge themselves, raising themselves up to ever-greater heights.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (24 July 1958) p.412
In the evening went to the home of attorney H. to discuss the cemetery issue and other matters. Few lawyers stand up for justice. Because of this, the underprivileged remain miserable. In the power politics realm, the common people's sufferings are the same as in the days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Religious revolution. Social revolution. The people must rise to create their own society. Must become the detonator to spark this change.
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