Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 23 November 2020 - Year of Advancement and Capable People



    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

November 23, 2020

 If I were to make an allegory, thought and philosophy would be like the heart or respiratory system of the human body. When the heart is sound, the whole body can maintain healthy activity. This same principle applies to both the individual and society. The SGI has a mission to serve as the heart that ensures the healthy functioning of society. Consequently, taking good care of the SGI, (the heart) allows the fresh life-giving blood of humanism to flow to and nourish all areas of society, including culture, politics and the economy.

 

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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

November 23, 2020

 You absolutely must not lament over my exile. It says in the "Encouraging Devotion" chapter and in the "Never Disparaging" chapter [that the votary of the Lotus Sutra will meet with persecution]. Life is limited; we must not begrudge it. What we should ultimately aspire to is the Buddha land.

 The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 214

Aspiration for the Buddha Land

Written to Toki Jonin on November 23, 1271

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

November 23, 2020

 The purpose of Buddhism is to bring out the Buddha nature that all people inherently possess, to awaken people to it and enable them to attain Buddhahood. Moreover, the Lotus Sutra does not allow for any discrimination; all people are equally entitled to salvation.

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (11 December 1956) p.310

 My mother wept openly. She has traveled the last fifty years of her journey of life with my father. No one can possibly understand my mother's feeling or state of mind. It has been a long, happy and difficult journey. My mother's tears of genuine love transcend everything – intellect, status, affluence or vanity. Ah, my simple, yet extraordinary mother and father. The sorrow of being separated from a loved one. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo