Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 25 August 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

August 25, 2020 

Life flashes by in an instant. By devoting our lives to Buddhism, we will live a life of complete fulfillment. We are selling ourselves short if we fail to attain such a wonderful state of life. 

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

August 25, 2020 

This Gohonzon is the essence of the Lotus Sutra and the eye of all the scriptures. It is like the sun and moon in the heavens, a great ruler on earth, the heart in a human being, the wish-granting jewel among treasures and the pillar of a house. When we have this mandala with us, it is a rule that all Buddhas and gods will gather round and watch over us, protecting us like a shadow day and night, just as warriors guard their ruler, as parents love their children, as fish rely on water, as trees and plants crave rain, or as birds depend on trees. 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 624

On Upholding Faith in the Gohonzon

Written to the lay nun Myoshin on August 25, 1275

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

August 25, 2020 

One of the fascinating things about human beings is this: Believe for long enough that you are not as smart as others and this will actually lead to intellectual ineptitude. But, confronted with the same doubts, if you choose to believe that your mind is merely dormant for now, lacking in exercise, once you begin to train it, there are no bounds to what you can achieve.

 

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (31 December 1954) p.207 

Sensei reminisced about his childhood, his youth and his adulthood. He has led a tumultuous life. There have been many great individuals and many pioneers. Absolutely no one but President Toda, however, stands by the common people and inspires youth to construct a new era. Without power, wealth, background or status, all he possesses is the raw power of humanity, the power of faith gushing forth from his entire being, and the wisdom to see ten years, no, two hundred years into the future. Had profound thoughts.