Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 5 October 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People



    Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

October 5, 2020 

Nichiren Daishonin said to one of his lay followers: "I entrust you with the propagation of Buddhism in your province. Because the seeds of Buddhahood sprout in response to the proper influence, one expounds the teaching of the one vehicle". 

Events: SGI-USA Day.

1960 President Ikeda arrives in San Francisco on his first trip to the continental United States, setting in motion the American movement to spread the Daishonin's Buddhism. At Coit Tower, President Ikeda declares that this day will one day be looked upon as a significant step forward for the Daishonin's Buddhism.

 

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 From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

October 5, 2020 

One may be letter-perfect in reciting the Lotus Sutra, but it is far more difficult to act as it teaches.

 The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 200

Lessening One's Karmic Retribution

Written to Ota Saemon-no-jo, the lay priest Soya and the Dharma Bridge Kimbara on October 5, 1271

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

October 5, 2020

No matter what the circumstances, you should never concede defeat. Never conclude that you've reached a dead end, that everything is finished. You possess a glorious future. And precisely because of that, you must persevere and study. Life is eternal. We need to focus on the two existences of the present and the future and not get caught up in the past. We must always have the spirit to begin anew "from this moment," to initiate a new struggle each day.

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 Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (06 October 1955) p. 253

1. Must take pains to treat people with compassion.

2. Advance with warmth and tolerance.

Why? Think it is because I am intense and passionately emotional by nature. Want to be first in Japan and then in the whole world. Is having such a desire a cause for happiness or unhappiness? This I must ask myself.

Do not wish to have regrets in this lifetime.