Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, October 10, 2015
It doesn't matter in what area, just keep working on your personal revolution to transform and improve yourself in the way most natural for you. The important thing is that you change in some positive way. There is surely no more exhilarating a life than one in which we write our own unique history of human revolution each day. And the growth and transformation we achieve in this way can convince people of the greatness of the Daishonin's Buddhism more eloquently than anything else.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, October 10, 2015
The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 401
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage - Nichiren.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (10 August 1950) p.41/42
A month of bitter struggles. Wherein lies the cause of such misery?
...
I'm ill. The business is failing. Our finances are at the point of bankruptcy. People are losing faith in our company.
Mr. Toda is in a dreadful position. I'm fighting with grim determination but nothing works out the way I hope. Mortified at my co-workers' complaints....
Do not fear, though obstacles surround you,
You, a Bodhisattva of the Earth.
The youth who pledged his oath before the Buddha
Arises to carry out his heavy mission.
Mighty waves that tower on high,
Break with all your fury. Test your power against mine!
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