Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, April 6, 2015
There is no retirement age in faith. Sincere faith never ages. Those who exert themselves for the sake of the Law are ever young. Our heart is what matters most. Let us strive to the end of our days for kosen-rufu.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, April 6, 2015
So if a woman makes offerings to the Lotus Sutra now in the last five hundred year period, [Bodhisattva Gladly Seen's] benefits will all be bequeathed to her without exception, just as a wealthy man transfers his entire fortune to his only son.
An Outline of the "Entrustment" and Other Chapters
Written to Nichinyo on June 25, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, April 6, 2015
Pure and committed practice of Nichiren Buddhism entirely changes the meaning of hardships in our lives. We no longer view challenges and trials as negatives to be avoided but as things which, when overcome, bring us closer to our attainment of Buddhahood.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (02 January 1960) p. 457
Left for my first pilgrimage of the year aboard at 10:00 a.m. express from Tokyo Station…
Recalled my departed mentor while on the train, gazed at Mount Fuji. No matter when I look at it, it is always a beautiful mountain. It is the foremost mountain in the world. Want to live as solid as this mountain.
A great sage and thinker, Nichiren Daishonin, in his boyhood, travelled the road along the eastern seaboard to MountHiei to study. What did he think of Mount Fuji when he saw it? Thought about his emotions at that time.
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