Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Friendship is strong. Friendship, camaraderie and unity in faith lie at the heart of the SGI. They come before the organization. We must never make the mistake of thinking that it is the other way around. The organization serves as a means for deepening friendship, comradeship and faith. To confuse the means and the end is a terrible mistake.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will be your staff to take you safely over the mountains of death. The Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, as well as the four bodhisattvas headed by Superior Practices, will lead you by the hand on your journey. If I, Nichiren, precede you in death, I will come to meet you at your last moment. If you should precede me, I will be sure to tell King Yama all about you. Everything that I tell you is true. According to the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren is the guide who knows the passes and gorges along the way."
The Swords of Good and Evil
Written to Hojo Yagenta on February 21, 1274
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, February 21, 2015
There is no way of life more desolate or more pitiful than one of ignorance of the fundamental joy that issues from the struggle to generate and regenerate one's own life from within. To be human is much more than the mere biological facts of standing erect and exercising reason and intelligence. The full and genuine meaning of our humanity is found in tapping the creative fonts of life itself.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (11 November 1958) p.425
Made clean copies of Sensei's imprisonment records for the future. Recorded his guidance for the sake of those to follow.
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Organized Sensei's guidance alone. My heart burns, at times, with passion at the guidance of this leader of unprecedented caliber. When can I extol him to the world?
"Buddhas! Bodhisattvas! Heavenly gods! Let me live long!" I pray. Long enough to finish recording the accurate history of kosen-rufu led by my mentor and leave it behind for eternity.
To this end, must take care of my health. To this end, as the sutra states, "Let us live out our lives!" (LS16, 228)
Home just after midnight.
A tranquil room, rich with the scents of autumn.
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