Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
February 10, 2020
Kosen-rufu is a supreme, golden path extending throughout the Latter Day of the Law into the eternal future. Let us continue to advance boldly and intrepidly along this path as Nichiren Daishonin teaches. This is the way world peace will be accomplished. If we do not widely spread the principles and ideals of the Daishonin's Buddhism, there will be no hope for the peace and happiness of humankind.
February 10, 2020
If even Shariputra, the foremost in wisdom among the disciples of the Buddha, failed to understand people's capacity, then how much more difficult must it be for ordinary teachers today, in the Latter Day of the Law, to have such an understanding! Ordinary teachers who lack an understanding of people's capacity should teach only the Lotus Sutra to those who are under their instruction.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 49
The Teaching, Capacity, Time, and Country
Recipient unknown; written on February 10, 1262
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
February 10, 2020
Nichiren explains that to know oneself is to know all things in the universe. When you change, your environment changes, too. When your inner resolve changes, everything is transformed. This principle is summed up by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's maxim,
"Nothing's outside that's not within."
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 December 1957) p.368
It has been seven years since Sensei assumed the presidency, and his goal of 750,000 member households had been fulfilled. What should be the youth division goal? As a first step, it is our destiny to gather 100,000 young men, as Sensei stated in his essay, "Youth, Be Patriotic." It's up to me. Until then, I will resolutely battle the devil of illness. Can only pray for Sensei's recovery.
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