Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 1 August 2019 - Year of Soka Victory - Toward Our 90th Anniversary

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

August 1, 2019 

We must not allow ourselves to become bureaucratic and take for granted the efforts of those working behind the scenes. Nor must we ever forget to be considerate of those members of our families who may not be practicing the Daishonin's Buddhism. We must remember that for every person involved in SGI activities there is another, supporting him or her behind the scenes.

 

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

August 1, 2019 

If Nichiren's compassion is truly great and encompassing, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will spread for ten thousand years and more, for all eternity, for it has the beneficial power to open the blind eyes of every living being in the country of Japan, and it blocks off the road that leads to the hell of incessant suffering.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 736

On Repaying Debts of Gratitude

Written to Joken-bo and Gijo-bo on July 21, 1276

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

August 1, 2019 

By wholeheartedly and directly meeting life's challenges, we bring forth from within ourselves the "three bodies of the Buddha," which are truth, wisdom and compassion. The light of this internal wisdom constantly encourages and guides us toward true and correct action.

 

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (20 July 1954) p.192 

Deep agony day after day. Could finally see the sun break through the clouds. The daily papers are filled with articles about the atomic and hydrogen bombs. My head hurts from reading them. This is an age in which science's pure essence has been defiled by the worlds of Anger and Hell. In this period of threatened crop damage due to unseasonably cold weather, we can strongly sense the validity of the "On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land" prophecies.