Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Please remember that patience is in and of itself a great challenge and that it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered.
On Prayer
Written to Sairen-bo in September 1272
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, January 17, 2016
When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm determination.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (10 February 1951) p. 87
Conviction - we often repeat the word. Firm conviction, however is extremely difficult to grasp. How many times must we emerge from the brink of death, or cross raging rivers of hardship to acquire it? Faith - faith alone leads to lives of supreme conviction. Can we not ultimately acquire true conviction through the valiant and untiring practice of faith?
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