Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, January 2, 2016
The people are most important and noble. President Toda was firmly convinced of this point. And I have advanced with the same spirit. This is also Nichiren Daishonin's undying spirit. Please always treasure and protect this organization of the people that is the SGI.
Events
1928 Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president, is born.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Saturday, January 2, 2016
The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness. The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law. Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion?
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 132-33
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Saturday, January 2, 2016
In Nichiren Buddhism, attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent, godlike Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being. In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future. Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment inner struggle between revealing our innate Dharma nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental darkness and delusion.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (24 January 1951) p.81/82
Missed work today because my temperature rose to 104º F. Felt delirious all day and experienced nightmares when I slept. In the afternoon, K. stopped by to look after me...
At any rate, all I can depend on is my faith. Today more than any other, I can profoundly sense the greatness of this faith. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
1. Resolutely carry out a great propagation campaign during the coming year.
2. Carefully read the Gosho.
3. Read "The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings" and Nichikan's six-volume Writings.
4. Solidify business for our company.
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