Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
The resolve to accomplish your goals is what counts. If you earnestly put your mind to something, your brain, your body, your environment - everything will start working toward achieving that end.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
I spoke out solely because I had long known that the people of Japan would meet with great suffering, and I felt pity for them. Thoughtful persons should therefore realize that I have met these trials for their sake. If they were people who understood their obligations or who were capable of reason, then out of two blows that fall upon me, they would receive one in my stead.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 828
Reply to Yasaburo
Written to Saito Yasaburo on August 4, 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
In Buddhist terms, the great universe and the self - the great macrocosm and the microcosm are one. Since the self and all phenomena are one, all things are interrelated. Termed dependent origination, this teaching explains that all things weave a single whole in which individuals live in relation to all others.
In other words, all beings and phenomena exist or occur because of their relationship with other beings and phenomena, and nothing in either the human or the nonhuman world exists in isolation. All things are mutually related to and interdependent with all other things. They all form a great cosmos maintaining the rhythms of life.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (24 October 1949) p.11
Three months have passed already since Boys' Adventure was renamed Boys' Japan. We seem to be in severe straits, pressured by competition from larger companies. But management's not my role. All I can do is carry out the task assigned to me.
Boys' Japan - what a broad and powerful phrase! Boys growing toward the future, motions lighthearted as spring. Eyes clear as autumn skies. Hopes boundless as a prairie. Innocent boys deserve our respect. We must consider them the treasures of our nation, for they are builders of the society to come.
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