Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 28 March 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

March 28, 2020

 

Youth must have the spirit to attack injustice, the spirit to refute that which is wrong, the spirit to spread the Daishonin's teaching. Just giving an appearance of promoting kosen-rufu and going with the flow, afraid of making waves, are the actions of self-serving youth, who are spiritually old and decrepit.

 

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

March 28, 2020

 

The heart of the Lotus Sutra is its title, or the daimoku, of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Truly, if you chant this in the morning and evening, you are correctly reading the entire Lotus Sutra. Chanting daimoku twice is the same as reading the entire sutra twice, one hundred daimoku equal one hundred readings of the sutra, and a thousand daimoku, a thousand readings of the sutra. Thus, if you ceaselessly chant daimoku, you will be continually reading the Lotus Sutra.

 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 923

The One Essential Phrase

Written to the lay nun Myoho on July 3, 1278

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

March 28, 2020

 

A Buddha is definitely not an absolute being living a static existence. A Buddha shares the sufferings of others and, sensing the condition of the time, earnestly ponders how to transform that condition. A Buddha vows to struggle in order to lead the people and the age to enlightenment. The strength of this vow causes the Buddha's enlightenment to mature into rich wisdom.

 

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Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (19 December 1952) p.123

 

Next year, I will further exert myself in faith and advance in practice. I will apply myself thoroughly to studying Buddhism. I will gain trust and respect as a youth.