Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 10 October 2021 - Year of Hope and Victory

            

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
October 10, 2021

It doesn't matter in what area, just keep working on your personal revolution to transform and improve yourself in the way most natural for you. The important thing is that you change in some positive way. There is surely no more exhilarating a life than one in which we write our own unique history of human revolution each day. And the growth and transformation we achieve in this way can convince people of the greatness of the Daishonin's Buddhism more eloquently than anything else.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
October 10, 2021

The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day. 

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 401
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
October 10, 2021 

Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage - Nichiren.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (20 October 1955) p. 259 

 (Next day) Body and mind are out of rhythm. Could not see Sensei during the day again. Felt empty and lonesome. Isn't life force the key to happiness? Clearly this is the most important requirement. Over the next several years, I will put this to the test and prove it decisively. Healthy ones, don't forget to appreciate!
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