Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Thoreau, a renowned American Renaissance thinker, wrote in his journal: "Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." We shouldn't put anything off but seize the moment, living with all our being in the present. If we do that, he says, each moment will become eternity.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The rice plant flowers and bears grain, but its spirit remains in the soil. This is the reason the stalk sprouts to flower and bear grain once again. The blessings that Nichiren obtains from propagating the Lotus Sutra will always return to Dozen-bo. How sublime! It is said that, if a teacher has a good disciple, both will gain the fruit of Buddhahood, but if a teacher fosters a bad disciple, both will fall into hell. If teacher and disciple are of different minds, they will never accomplish anything.
Flowering and Bearing Grain
Written to Joken-bo and Gijo-bo in April 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The tendency of human beings is to try and escape challenges and seek an easy and peaceful environment. But happiness cannot be found somewhere else - it is found within us. A genuine way of life consists of transforming where we are right now into a supreme paradise.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (10 January 1960) p.462
Read quietly until midnight.
Browsed through the biographies of Marx, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Wang Yang-ming, Lenin, Hegel and Bach.
Lenin's life force at fifty-four, directed toward the revolution, is astounding and deserves some respect, the good or bad and high or low of his philosophy aside. In any case, we should learn something from those who carried through with their belief and creed.
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