Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 8 October 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People



   Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

October 8, 2020 

When you encounter a wall, you should tell yourself, "Since there is a wall here, a wide, open expanse must lie on the other side." Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far. I hope that you will continually advance in your Buddhist practice with this conviction blazing ever more strongly in your heart.

 

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

October 8, 2020 

Where there is water, fish dwell. Where there are woods, birds gather. On the mountain island of Peng-lai there are many jewels, and onMount Malaya sandalwood trees grow. There is gold in the mountains from which the river Li-shui flows. Now this place, too, is like that. It is the place of the cluster of blessings where the Buddhas and bodhisattvas dwell. 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1070

The Place of the Cluster of Blessings

Written to Shijo Kingo on October 8, 1280

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

October 8, 2020 

Life is like a sea voyage. We each need to open up our own course in life with the strength of our convictions, unperturbed by the crashing breakers of life's stormy seas. The fiercer the tempest rages, the more we need to rouse our own fighting spirit and man the tiller with all our strength and skill crying, "Bring it on!" Through this type of arduous struggle we can forge the practical wisdom to triumph consistently and, as victorious champions, to create history.

 

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (16 October 1955) p. 258 

A clear autumn day. Not a cloud in the sky.

I adore my sons, Hiromasa and Shirohisa. Don't feel at all like their father. Is it because I'm still so young myself or is it due to my spoiled nature? In any case, all I can do is pray from the depths of my heart that these two will become men of justice who can open their golden wings and take flight as capable people for kosen-rufu.