Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, December 18, 2015
We SGI members devote ourselves to serving the Law, serving humanity. Ours is not an egocentric life. That is why we are busier than others and perhaps don't have as much opportunity for relaxation with our families. Nevertheless, we continue to devote ourselves to others. Ours is the most noble way of life. We must make sure our children can understand and respect our beliefs, our way of life and our dedication. We must make conscious efforts to verbalize and communicate our thoughts and feelings to them. Finding the wisdom for this task is an expression of our faith.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, December 18, 2015
In commenting on this passage, I have this to say: 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.
The Selection of the Time
This treatise, counted among Nichiren Daishonin's five major writings and written at Minobu in the first year of Kenji (1275)
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, December 18, 2015
Live with a dancing spirit. The stars in the heavens are dancing through space, the Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing: the trees with the wind, the waves on the sea, the birds, the fish, all are performing their own dance of life. Every living thing is dancing, and you must keep dancing too, for the rest of your life!
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (12 December 1950) p.68
Nothing is more changeable than the human mind. Friends who were as close as fish and water until yesterday may become enemies brandishing arms at one another today. A person deeply in love in the morning my change his or her mind by evening, as easily as water flows. A visitor with whom one conversed intimately a few days ago may flare up in anger in response to a moment's shift of mind.
My heart does not change, but my circumstances are intimidating.
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