Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 26 August 2021 - Year of Hope and Victory

             

Daily Encouragement by  Daisaku Ikeda
August 26, 2021

We accumulate great good fortune through our earnest prayers, devotion and efforts for the sake of Buddhism, kosen-rufu and humankind. Prayer without action is not the way of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
August 26, 2021

It is easy to sustain our concern for someone who is before our very eyes, but quite a different thing when that person is far away, even though in our heart we may not forget him. Nevertheless, in the five years . . . that have already passed since I came to live here in the mountains, you have sent your husband from the province of Sado to visit me three times. How great is your sincerity! It is firmer than the great earth, deeper than the great sea! 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 933
The Sutra of True Requital
Written to the lay nun Sennichi on July 28, 1278
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
August 26, 2021

There is no trace of coercion or concern for appearances in Nichiren's behaviour. He looked on those who were suffering, those who were bravely fighting alongside him, as if they were himself in the same situations. He prized each and every one of them. He encouraged them and sympathized with them, and we must never forget that the true essence of humanity is to be found in this. When we observe Nichiren's actions, we are deeply struck by the conviction that this is the way a Buddhist must live.
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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (06 January 1955) p.213 

The members are young; vigorous. The nature of the Gakkai is eternal. We are inexperienced, but the elements necessary to complete our great task lie far beyond mere experience. Daringly and courageously we cast off the old and open the way for the new. 
Because I have expounded this teaching, I have been exiled and almost killed. As the saying goes, "Good advice grates on the ear."
- "The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood"
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