February 13, 2018
Remembering things about a person is an expression of compassion and concern. Forgetfulness shows a lack of compassion, a lack of responsibility.
February 13, 2018
Because I chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with my own mouth, I have been reviled, struck, exiled, and had my life threatened. However, in spite of all this, I have continued to exhort others to do likewise. Am I not then a votary of the Lotus Sutra?"
No Safety in the Threefold World
Written to Matsuno Rokuro Saemon on February 13, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
February 13, 2018
Henry David Thoreau, a renowned American Renaissance thinker, wrote in his journal: "Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." We shouldn't put anything off but seize the moment, living with all our being in the present. If we do that, he says, each moment will become eternity.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (31 December 1957) p.370
An eternal goodbye to my twenty-ninth year. May I live gloriously in my thirties. It has been a difficult year. It may have been a losing battle. This coming year, I will definitely win and make a fresh start toward a splendid life. Farewell, 1957! Mount Fuji stands undaunted, as always, against the bitter wind.
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