Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
We accumulate great good fortune through our earnest prayers, devotion and efforts for the sake of Buddhism, kosen-rufu and humankind. Prayer without action is not the way of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
It is easy to sustain our concern for someone who is before our very eyes, but quite a different thing when that person is far away, even though in our heart we may not forget him. Nevertheless, in the five years . . . that have already passed since I came to live here in the mountains, you have sent your husband from the province of Sado to visit me three times. How great is your sincerity! It is firmer than the great earth, deeper than the great sea!
The Sutra of True Requital
Written to the lay nun Sennichi on July 28, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
There is no trace of coercion or concern for appearances in Nichiren's behaviour. He looked on those who were suffering, those who were bravely fighting alongside him, as if they were himself in the same situations. He prized each and every one of them. He encouraged them and sympathized with them, and we must never forget that the true essence of humanity is to be found in this. When we observe Nichiren's actions, we are deeply struck by the conviction that this is the way a Buddhist must live.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (21 May 1950) p.24
"If a man builds a road for others and someone loses his way on it, is that the fault of the road builder? If a skilled physician gives medicine to a sick person but the sick person, repelled by medicine, refuses to take it and dies, should one blame the physician? (The Selection of the Time)
Spent a leisurely Sunday for a change. Went to the baths with a friend and had breakfast at a cafeteria where you pay with ration tickets. Bought some toys for the children in my apartment building at a store in from of Omori Station. They seemed very pleased with them.
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