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



     

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

November 5, 2020 

It is important that we live cheerfully. With a strong spirit of optimism, we need to be able to continually direct our minds in a bright, positive and beneficial direction and help those around us do so, too. We should strive to develop a state of life where we feel a sense of joy no matter what happens.

 

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 From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

November 5, 2020 

Tsukimaro must have chanted Nam-myoho-rennge-kyo with her very first cry at birth. The Lotus Sutra speaks of "the true aspect of all phenomena." T'ien-t'ai said, "Voices do the Buddha's work." This is also what I think. The deaf cannot hear the thunder, and blind cannot see the light of the sun and moon. But I am quite certain that the ten demon daughters must be together side by side, giving the baby her first bath and watching over her growth. 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 188

The Birth of Tsukimaro

Written to Nichigen-nyo and Shijo Kingo on May 8, 1271

 

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 Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

November 5, 2020 

Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs. Slanderers are like barking foxes, but Nichiren's followers are like roaring lions – Nichiren

 

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (25 March 1956) p.290 

Discussed propagation for about an hour.

Finally, Sensei said, in essence, that shakubuku means to live with the great conviction that we ourselves are entities of Myoho-renge-kyo.

We carry out the gentle practice of Shoju based on the spirit of Shakubuku. In other words, shakubuku naturally includes the practice of shoju. In terms of 'offerings of wealth' and 'offering of the Law', true shakubuku corresponds to an offering of the Law.