Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 27 November 2019 - Year of Soka Victory - Toward Our 90th Anniversary

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

November 27, 2019 

Faith is the ultimate essence of intellect. Through the practice of correct faith, the intellect comes to shine. Intellect without correct faith lacks a firm anchor in the soil of life and eventually becomes disordered. This prompted the first Soka Gakkai president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, to remark that many modern thinkers were suffering from what he termed "higher psychosis." Faith without intellect, meanwhile, leads to blind faith and fanaticism. Faith or intellect alone - one without the other - is unhealthy.

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

November 27, 2019

Only in the Lotus Sutra do we read that a woman who embraces this sutra not only excels all other women, but also surpasses all men.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 462

The Unity of Husband and Wife

Written to Nichigen-nyo on January 27, 1275

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

November 27, 2019

The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (19 December 1956) p.313/314

Confucius said:

"At thirty, I stood tall.

"At forty, I was free from doubt.

"At fifty, I realized heaven's will."

Yet, as a disciple of Nichiren Daishonin, it is not necessary to delineate things in terms of age. This is due to 'the simultaneity of cause and effect,' the 'three thousand realms in a single moment of life.' This is true as long as I feel my mission and maintain the unity of 'many in body, one in mind.' This should be the absolute basis of everything.

In any event, all I need is to continue my human revolution throughout my life based on faith.