Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 2 November 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People



      Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

November 2, 2020 

There are cases when we wonder why merit doesn't reveal itself in spite of our earnest and high degree of faith. At such times, rather than suspecting that you may entertain doubt about the Gohonzon, it is better to ask yourself whether you are guilty of a type of slander. Because a person who is contemptuous, hating, jealous or holds grudges will realize no benefits.

 

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

November 2, 2020 

You should realize that it is because of a profound karmic relationship from the past that you can teach others even a sentence or phrase of the Lotus Sutra. 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 33

A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering

Written to Shiji Shiro on April 28, 1261

 

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 Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

November 2, 2020 

The Lotus Sutra explains that the self is one with the universe. The practice of the Lotus Sutra is the practice of compassion to respect and revere everyone as a treasure tower, and to become happy conjointly with others in accord with the principle of the oneness of self and others, while overcoming the various difficulties we face.

 

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 Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (07 February 1956) p.289

The "Life Span" chapter of the Lotus Sutra reads: 

Abandoning restraint, they give themselves up to the five desires

and fall into the evil paths of existence.

Always I am aware of which living beings

practice the way, and which do not,

and in response to their needs for salvation

I preach various doctrines for them.

At all times I think to myself:

How can I cause living beings

to gain entry into the unsurpassed way

and quickly acquire the body of a Buddha? – (LS16, 231-32) 

A lonely day.