Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Winning in life is not a matter of form or appearances. It has nothing to do with vanity. Victory in life ultimately hinges on whether one has truly fought, whether one has truly advanced.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Miao-lo said, "Wise men can perceive the cause of things, as snakes know the way of snakes." The present epidemics are like the virulent boils of King Ajatashatru that could not be cured by anyone but the Buddha. They can only be eliminated by the Lotus Sutra.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 920
The Two Kinds of Illness
Written to Shijo Kingo on June 26, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Now, if you wish to attain Buddhahood, you have only to lower the banner of your arrogance, cast aside the staff of your anger, and devote yourself exclusively to the one vehicle of the Lotus Sutra. Worldly fame and profit are mere baubles of your present existence, and arrogance and prejudice are ties that will fetter you in a next one - Nichiren
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 June 1950) p.36
War finally broke out between North and South Korea. Anxious that it might trigger another world war.
...
Is humanity to be plunged again into a whirlpool of grief and suffering, loneliness and torment?
The time has come for us to rise to action.
First, prayer. Then, practice. For the sake of kosen-rufu.
Behold, humanity, our gallant image: our love for humanity, our aspiring toward peace.
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