Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Life contains the capacity, like flames that reach toward heaven, to transform suffering and pain into the energy needed for value-creation, into light that illuminates darkness. Like the wind traversing vast spaces unhindered, life has the power to uproot and overturn all obstacles and difficulties. Like clear flowing water, it can wash away all stains and impurities. And finally life, like the great earth that sustains plants and vegetation, impartially protects all people with its compassionate, nurturing force.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Bodhisattva Superior Practices received the water of wisdom of the Mystic Law from the Thus Come One Shakyamuni and causes it to flow into the wasteland of the people's lives in the evil world of the latter age. This is the function of wisdom. Shakyamuni Buddha transferred this teaching to Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and now Nichiren propagates it in Japan .
The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood
Written to Soya Jiro Hyoe-no-jo Kyoshin on August 3, 1276
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
True individuality never comes to full flower without hard work. Therefore, you're making a big mistake if you think that who you are right now represents all you are capable of being.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (20 March 1951) p. 101
Those absorbed only in their personal affairs cannot achieve anything great. Without developing ourselves, however, it would be equally impossible to achieve anything of importance. In Buddhism, there is no such thing as sacrifice. With the goal of attaining enlightenment, we strive for kosen-rufu, and awakening to our mission for kosen-rufu enables us to attain Buddhahood. Perhaps this relationship is like that of the earth's revolution around the sun and its rotation on its own axis.
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