Sensei's Daily Encouragement - February 9 2022 - The year of Youth and Dynamic Progress



                    
     

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
February 9, 2022

There is no place in the SGI for cowards or for egoists who are given to arbitrary or self-serving views. Our movement has no need for the fainthearted, filled with doubt, who readily succumb to negative influences. Let us strive for the Law and live with dignity as proud members of the SGI! The 21st century shall be the essential phase of our movement. Bathed in the brilliant light of dawn, let us take our places on that golden stage and lead truly magnificent lives!
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
February 9, 2022
What good karma must you have formed in the past, then, to have been born a person able to recite even so much as a verse or a phrase of the Lotus Sutra!"

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 69
The Recitation of the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters
Written to Hiki Daigaku Saburo Yoshimoto's wife on April 17, 1264
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
February 9, 2022

You must never slacken in your efforts to build new lives for yourselves. Creativeness means pushing open the heavy door to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the hardest task in the world. For opening the door to your own life is more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 December 1957) p.368

Took a taxi from home. Think of the cab fare as a medical expense for maintaining my health.

Sensei is profoundly ill. I, too, am ill. Regrettable.

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