Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The moment we resolve "I will become healthy!" "I will become strong!" "I will work cheerfully for kosen-rufu!" our lives begin to move in that direction. We have to make up our minds.
Events
1900 Josei Toda, the Soka Gakkai's second president, is born.
1996 Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research founded by SGI President Ikeda in Tokyo ; offices opened in Hawaii in 1997.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Shakyamuni Buddha who attained enlightenment countless kalpas ago, the Lotus Sutra that leads all people to Buddhahood, and we ordinary human beings are in no way different or separate from one another. To chant Myoho-renge-kyo with this realization is to inherit the ultimate Law of life and death. This is a matter of the utmost importance for Nichiren's disciples and lay supporters, and this is what it means to embrace the Lotus Sutra.
The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
Written to Sairen-bo Nichijo on February 11, 1272
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
There was a word that second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda often stressed with the fervent wish to impart its importance to his successors. That word was courage. He once gave this clear-cut guidance: " The essence of Buddhism is compassion. We, too, need to have compassion but, being ordinary mortals, the reality is that it is quite difficult for us. Courage substitutes for compassion. I am speaking of the courage to save others from suffering. To practice Buddhism with courage translates into compassion."
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (23 September 1958) p.420
Got up at 7:00 on the 23rd. Attended the sports festival – with the conviction that Sensei was also in attendance. A festival of youth. Spectators numbered more than seventy thousand. A magnificent spectacle. Excellent.
Greatly missed Sensei's presence.
It was President Toda alone who always watched over us youth with love and compassion. We found lives truly worth living. We were happy.
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