Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, March 27, 2015
While controlling your mind, which is at once both extremely subtle and solemnly profound, you should strive to elevate your faith with freshness and vigour. When you do so, both your life and your surroundings will open wide before you and every action you take will become a source of benefit. Understanding the subtle workings of one's mind is the key to faith and attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, March 27, 2015
You also are a practitioner of the Lotus Sutra, and your faith is like the waxing moon or the rising tide. Be deeply convinced, then, that your illness cannot possibly persist, and that your life cannot fail to be extended! Take care of yourself, and do not burden your mind with grief.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 656
The Bow and Arrow
Written to the lay nun Toki on March 27, 1276
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, March 27, 2015
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (28 November 1959) p.448
Bicycled to Kamata Station. It was cold.
Lectured on Nichikan's "The Threefold Secret Teaching" in the evening. Painfully aware of the need for lifelong study. Will never be arrogant and remiss, filled with regrets.
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Faith leads to the study of Buddhist teachings, that is, the study of being human.
Dedication to the Mystic Law while young creates a genuine, noble time of youth, it gives rise to joy and excitement in everything.
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