Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 4 August 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

August 4, 2020

The resolve to accomplish your goals is what counts. If you earnestly put your mind to something, your brain, your body, your environment - everything will start working toward achieving that end.

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

August 4, 2020

I spoke out solely because I had long known that the people of Japan would meet with great suffering, and I felt pity for them. Thoughtful persons should therefore realize that I have met these trials for their sake. If they were people who understood their obligations or who were capable of reason, then out of two blows that fall upon me, they would receive one in my stead.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 828

Reply to Yasaburo

Written to Saito Yasaburo on August 4, 1277

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

August 4, 2020

In Buddhist terms, the great universe and the self - the great macrocosm and the microcosm are one. Since the self and all phenomena are one, all things are interrelated. Termed dependent origination, this teaching explains that all things weave a single whole in which individuals live in relation to all others.

In other words, all beings and phenomena exist or occur because of their relationship with other beings and phenomena, and nothing in either the human or the nonhuman world exists in isolation. All things are mutually related to and interdependent with all other things. They all form a great cosmos maintaining the rhythms of life.

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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 July 1954) p.195

Today was the first summer like day of the season. Worried if the low temperatures continue, the rice crops will suffer. Praying for an abundant harvest…

In this world, economic collapse means the end of everything – the nation, the individual and the family. Is this the way it should be? No, the ultimate problem lies in preventing the environment from sapping people's determination, in other words, their resolution to defeat devilish forces. Either our determination is destroyed by the environment or we develop a condition of life powerful enough to reconstruct the environment. Must ponder deeply the relationship between life and its environment.