Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, November 1, 2015
The Daishonin has taught us that through gongyo and chanting daimoku we can reach an elevated state in which, while engaged in our daily lives, we travel throughout the entire universe. When you worship the Gohonzon, the door to your microcosm is opened to the entire universe, the macrocosm, and you experience a great, boundless joy, as if you were looking out over the entire cosmos. You feel great satisfaction and rejoicing, a great wisdom, as if you held the entire universe in your palm.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, November 1, 2015
It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realized this truth. The sutra's statement, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers," cannot be false in any way.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 217
The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
Written to Sairen-bo Nichijo on February 11, 1272
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Buddhism is not a religion that closes its eyes to people's suffering; it is a teaching that opens people's eyes. Therefore, Buddhism is the path that enables people to become happy. To turn away our eyes from the contradictions of society and rid ourselves of all worldly thoughts is not the way of Buddhist practice. The true spirit of meditation lies in manifesting our innate wisdom in society and resolutely struggling for the happiness of ourselves and others, and to construct a better society.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (19 September 1950) p.49
To deceive oneself is a great evil. Ours should be a society in which all can properly carry out their duties and enjoy their rights. It is a bitter thing to be unable to act openly on your ideas or do what you think is right. There is too much deceit. It is a sad thing.
Too much ugly strife. What destiny creates the difference in individual personalities? Adults should at least take the responsibility for children and young people to grow up freely and correctly, for the sake of the future.
Read the Gosho. It is extremely difficult.
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