Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, February 5, 2015
I hope that you will always speak the truth boldly, saying what needs to be said no matter whom you're addressing. When it comes to championing a just cause, you must never be cowardly, never fawn, never try to curry favour.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, February 5, 2015
You must never think that any of the eighty thousand sacred teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha's lifetime or any of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions and three existences are outside yourself. Your practice of the Buddhist teachings will not relieve you of the sufferings of birth and death in the least unless you perceive the true nature of your life.
On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime
Written to Toki Jonin in 1255
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Life for everyone is a struggle against the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death. Happiness is not the absence of problems or worries; it is to be undefeated no matter what problems or worries we may face. And this happiness is not solely focused on oneself. Truly happy are those who can help others become happy.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (02 September 1958) p.417
It's been getting cooler each morning and evening. The scorching heat is gone. Autumn is deepening.
How many springs and autumns will I see in my lifetime? What will the future hold in ten or twenty years for those now exerting themselves with youthful energy?
Is impermanence the essential aspect of all things? Or is it permanence?
Read! Think! Get physically fit!
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