Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 13 March 2015 - Year of Dynamic Development in the New Era of Worldwide Kosen Rufu

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

Friday, March 13, 2015

 

If we don't practice gongyo, the rhythm of our lives will be thrown off kilter, just as a machine that isn't oiled will rust. Gongyo and chanting daimoku are like starting an automobile's engine every day and driving in the direction of happiness and truth. By doing so day after day, you will gradually attain perfect unity with the universe and the Law. That state is the state of the Buddha.

 

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Friday, March 13, 2015

 

Abutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is Abutsu-bo himself. No other knowledge is purposeful. It is the treasure tower adorned with the seven kinds of treasures - hearing the correct teaching, believing it, keeping the precepts, engaging in meditation, practicing assiduously, renouncing one's attachments, and reflecting on oneself. You may think you offered gifts to the treasure tower of the Thus Come One Many Treasures, but that is not so. You offered them to yourself.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 299

On the  Treasure   Tower

Written to Abutsu-bo Nittoko on March 13, 1272

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

Friday, March 13, 2015

 

In the face of rejection, you must learn to be courageous. It is important to believe in yourself. Be like the sun, which shines on serenely even though not all the heavenly bodies reflect back its light and even though some of its brilliance seems to radiate only into empty space. While those who reject your friendship may sometimes fade out of your life, the more you shine your light, the more brilliant your life will become.

 

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (25 June 1959) p.441

 

Tired both physically and spiritually. Just exerting myself in chanting daimoku.

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Feel Sensei's greatness from the depths of my life these days, more and more. I must become an honorable, capable leader whom everyone can trust. To repay my debt of gratitude to my mentor, must develop myself into a compassionate, youthful leader.