Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Youth must have the spirit to attack injustice, the spirit to refute that which is wrong, the spirit to spread the Daishonin's teaching. Just giving an appearance of promoting kosen-rufu and going with the flow, afraid of making waves, are the actions of self-serving youth, who are spiritually old and decrepit.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The heart of the Lotus Sutra is its title, or the daimoku, of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Truly, if you chant this in the morning and evening, you are correctly reading the entire Lotus Sutra. Chanting daimoku twice is the same as reading the entire sutra twice, one hundred daimoku equal one hundred readings of the sutra, and a thousand daimoku, a thousand readings of the sutra. Thus, if you ceaselessly chant daimoku, you will be continually reading the Lotus Sutra.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 923
The One Essential Phrase
Written to the lay nun Myoho on July 3, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, March 28, 2015
A Buddha is definitely not an absolute being living a static existence. A Buddha shares the sufferings of others and, sensing the condition of the time, earnestly ponders how to transform that condition. A Buddha vows to struggle in order to lead the people and the age to enlightenment. The strength of this vow causes the Buddha's enlightenment to mature into rich wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (30 November 1959) p.449
My recollections of President Toda are limitless...
On my way home stopped at the barber shop. Disturbed by the words of cunning elder leaders. Wonder if such people exist in society?
In any case resolved never to become a despicable man oblivious of the debt of gratitude owed to his mentor. Will not deviate even the slightest from my mentor's last will and testament. If we are content with fulfilling only our own selfish desires, how can we possibly claim to be true disciples?
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