Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Faith enables us to secure ultimate victory. It enables us to live with vigour and joy and to strive to improve ourselves - to become the very best people we can be. Moreover, faith enables us to walk through life with complete assurance and confidence, unafraid of anything.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Our worldly misdeeds and evil karma may have piled up as high as Mount Sumeru , but when we take faith in this sutra, they will vanish like frost or dew under the sun of the Lotus Sutra.
Letter to Niike
Written to Niike Saemon-no-jo in February 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Religion must teach an "attitude to life." To live a life of true human dignity is certainly difficult. Life is change; it is continuous change. Nothing is constant. The four sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death are an eternal theme that no one can escape.
Amid harsh reality, people yearn from the depths of their beings to live with dignity and for their lives to have meaning, and they make efforts toward that end. The product of these human yearnings, these prayers, is religion. Religion was born from prayer. What is Nichiren's response to these prayers of human beings? What attitude toward life does he teach? The answer, in short, is the principle of attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (02 September 1949) p.10
Forge on courageously and boldly, because you are young.
Always grow.
Never forget to go beyond the limits.
Must take a good look at myself again today.
Am I lying to myself? Am I committing some offense? Have I true compassion or not?
My life until now has been like a play, a dream, already a thing of the past. Now is what counts. From this moment on. The future is my arena, a training ground where I can make up for my shortcomings.
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