Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 11 August 2021 - Year of Hope and Victory

                    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
August 11, 2021

Let's read the Gosho regularly. Even just a little is fine. Even a single sentence. Just opening the Gosho is a start. At any rate, let's strive to read the Daishonin's writings. It's important to have the spirit to study the Gosho, to open up the Gosho. Even if you forget what you've read, something profound will have been engraved in the depths of your life.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
August 11, 2021

Even an individual at cross purposes with himself is certain to end in failure. Yet a hundred or even a thousand people can definitely attain their goal, if they are of one mind. 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 618
Many in Body, One in Mind
Written to the lay priest Takahashi on August 6, year unknown
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
August 11, 2021

One who has mastered himself is truly free. Freedom lies in the heart of the sage, servitude in the heart of the fool. 
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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (30 August 1954) p.199 

Sensei seems healthy and in high spirits. This makes me truly happy...
A Study Department professors meeting from 5:00. I am now being dispatch to Osaka Chapter each month to give a lecture. Must study.
A general staff meeting from 7:00. Returned home early after a pleasant meeting. Must not neglect gongyo.
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