Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 06 December 2019 - Year of Soka Victory - Toward Our 90th Anniversary

   

    Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

December 6, 2019

 Where can we find the royal road to reformation and change? Emerson declared: "Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind." He strongly urged us to undergo an inner reformation. I want you to be assured that the challenge to which we set ourselves day after day - that of our human revolution -- is the royal road to bringing about a reformation in our families, local regions and societies. An inner revolution is the most fundamental and at the same time the ultimate revolution for engendering change in all things.

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

December 6, 2019

The host: You have associated with a friend in the orchid room and have become as straight as mugwort growing among the hemp. If you will truly give consideration to the troubles I have been describing and put entire faith in these words of mine, then the winds will blow gently, the waves will be calm, and in no time at all we will enjoy bountiful harvests.

 On Establishing The Correct Teaching (1260)

The work consists of a dialogue between a host and a visitor. The host

represents Nichiren Daishonin, and the visitor, it is thought, represents Hojo Tokiyori. At the outset, the host lays the blame for the disasters that have befallen the country on the belief in an erroneous religion, the Pure Land teachings of Honen.

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

December 6, 2019

 Human society can be full of contradictions. It can be unfair; unforgiving, too. Yet we cannot afford to turn our backs to the world. A person who does loses, and no excuse can gloss that over. Given a choice whether to sink or swim, one must swim to the very end, no matter how the seas around us may rage.

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (06 March 1957) p.328

Read Japan's Prime Ministers and How to Lead People. Uninteresting. Abe Isenokami Masahiro was councilor to the shogun at twenty-five. In England, William ("the Younger") Pitt became prime minister at twenty-four. This accorded with the solution of national crises. The power of youth. Lately, have come to a vivid awareness that faith and human revolution are one, and human revolution and social revolution are one.