Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Those who have experienced great suffering must win in life and become happy. If you're always losing and miserable, then you are not practicing the Daishonin's Buddhism correctly. You are not following the true path in life. Buddhism teaches the means by which the sad can become happy and the happy become happier still. That is the reason for our practice.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
What we call faith is nothing unusual. Faith means putting one's trust in the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, and the heavenly gods and benevolent deities, and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a woman cherishes her husband, as a man lays down his life for his wife, as parents refuse to abandon their children, or as a child refuses to leave its mother.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1036
The Meaning of Faith
Written to the lay nun Myoichi on May 18, 1280
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Nichiren Buddhism is concerned with a very practical problem - how people should live their lives - and never for an instant allows its attention to be diverted from that problem. And because this is its purpose, it demands as a first step that one conduct a thorough and fearless examination into the true nature of human life.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 October 1953) p.149
I, too, have reached a stage where I must move with a fresh determination and awareness. Must not revert to my shallow way of thinking from when I was single. I must now proceed responsibly in everything I do.
Ultimately, I must advance, step by step, with faith as my basis never yielding or losing sight of my goal.
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