Sensei's Daily Encouragement - April 17 2022 - The year of Youth and Dynamic Progress



                    
  
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
April 17, 2022

Nothing can equal the splendour of youth. To be young is to possess a treasure of infinite worth, far greater than any person of power. This is all the more true of you who possess the eternal treasure of the Mystic Law. Those who live based on this supreme Law are bodhisattvas and Buddhas.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
April 17, 2022

Even if the sun and moon should never again emerge from the east, even if the great earth itself should turn over, even if the tides of the great ocean should cease to ebb and flow, even if broken stones are made whole, and even if the waters of the streams and rivers cease to flow into the ocean, no woman who believes in the Lotus Sutra could ever be dragged down by worldly faults and fall into the evil paths.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 70
The Recitation of the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters
Written to the wife of Hiki Daigaku Saburo Yoshimoto on April 17, 1264
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
April 17, 2022

The goal is not to eliminate desires, it is what one desires that is important. Earthly desires are enlightenment. The desire for supreme enlightenment, the search for enlightenment, is enlightenment. Satisfaction with one's accomplishments might seem like humility, but to underestimate life's potential is actually great arrogance.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (03 March 1953) p.138

I pray that, from among the members of my corps, men of power and ability for kosen-rufu will appear in rapid succession.

Members of my corps! I pray you will each develop into men who surpass me in capability.

Members of my corps! I pray that not one of you will discard your faith.

These days I deeply sense the tremendous mercy of the Gohonzon.
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