Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Life contains the capacity, like flames that reach toward heaven, to transform suffering and pain into the energy needed for value-creation, into light that illuminates darkness. Like the wind traversing vast spaces unhindered, life has the power to uproot and overturn all obstacles and difficulties. Like clear flowing water, it can wash away all stains and impurities. And finally life, like the great earth that sustains plants and vegetation, impartially protects all people with its compassionate, nurturing force.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Bodhisattva Superior Practices received the water of wisdom of the Mystic Law from the Thus Come One Shakyamuni and causes it to flow into the wasteland of the people's lives in the evil world of the latter age. This is the function of wisdom. Shakyamuni Buddha transferred this teaching to Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and now Nichiren propagates it in Japan .
The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood
Written to Soya Jiro Hyoe-no-jo Kyoshin on August 3, 1276
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
True individuality never comes to full flower without hard work. Therefore, you're making a big mistake if you think that who you are right now represents all you are capable of being.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (15 October 1958) p.423
Hot all day.
Took plenty of time to do gongyo in the morning. Felt my life stabilize. A mystic function.
Ate breakfast and went to work in high spirits.
Home just before 10:00
Read the Gosho until 2:00
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