Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, January 1, 2016
Those who wake up each morning with work to accomplish and a mission to fulfill are the happiest people of all. SGI members are like this. For us each day is one of supreme purpose and satisfaction. For us each day is New Year's Day. Please exert yourselves vigorously with the determination to live each day to the fullest, so that you may compose a golden diary of life.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, January 1, 2016
I have received a hundred slabs of steamed rice cake and a basket of fruit. New Year's Day marks the first day, the first month, the beginning of the year, and the start of spring. A person who celebrates this day will accumulate virtue and be loved by all, just as the moon becomes full gradually, moving from west to east, and as the sun shines more brightly, traveling from east to west.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1137
New Year's Gosho
Written to wife of Omosu on January 5, year unknown
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, January 1, 2016
If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. It is the same with a Buddha and an ordinary being. While deluded, one is called an ordinary being, but when enlightened, one is called a Buddha. This is similar to a tarnished mirror that will shine like a jewel when polished – Nichiren.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (23 January 1951) p.81
Up at 8:am., beautiful weather. Left for work in a hurry. Physical condition, poor. It is difficult to work hard while in such poor health. My first priority is to fight to establish good health. Only through faith can I change my physical condition and develop a robust constitution. Will do my utmost, in any way I can.
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