Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Buddhism is about bringing happiness, joy and fulfillment to all. It enables us not only to become happy ourselves but to make causes for the enlightenment of our ancestors seven-plus generations back and for the happiness and prosperity of our children, grandchildren and descendants throughout future generations. This is the great benefit of Buddhism.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. Nor have we ever heard of a believer in the Lotus Sutra who turned into an ordinary person. The sutra reads, "If there are those who hear the Law, then not a one will fail to attain Buddhahood."
Winter Always Turns to Spring
Written to the lay nun Myoichi in May 1275
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, May 31, 2015
The poetic spirit encourages people in all ranks and places to return to their naked humanity. Neither sentimental nor fantastic, it embraces and affirms the whole world and all its inhabitants; it imparts the will to remain optimistic and unbending in the face of all hardships. As a believer in innate human goodness, I am certain that the concentrated power of good can overcome the greatest forces of evil. The poetic spirit helps us control the greed-dominated self. It helps us handle the actual while keeping our eyes turned toward the ideal.
Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 March 1960) p.485
Must expand my life and give my all to guiding them*.
Those who criticize, do as you please. Those who are jealous, feel as you please. Those who laugh, those who ridicule, take a look ten years from now at the solitary youth who shoulders the Gakkai.
The Gakkai leaders, across every part of the organization, must study more and more. Must make deeper inroads into society.
*(young people)
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