Sensei's Daily Encouragement - April 22 2022 - The year of Youth and Dynamic Progress



                   
  
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
April 22, 2022

I hope you will always have the spirit to learn with a lively curiosity and interest. When leaders are enthusiastic to keep on learning and growing, they inspire others. New ideas emerge and spread. Fresh energy to advance surges forth. Instead of pretending to know all the answers, assuming an air of wisdom, let us always strive for greater understanding and insight into all manner of things, so that we can continue learning together and spur one another to grow. This is the kind of spirit I want to cherish.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
April 22, 2022

In the Latter Day of the Law, no treasure tower exists other than the figures of the men and women who embrace the Lotus Sutra. It follows, therefore, that whether eminent or humble, high or low, those who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo are themselves the treasure tower, and likewise, are themselves the Thus Come One Many Treasures.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 299
On the Treasure Tower
Written to Abutsu-bo Nittoku on March 13, 1272
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
April 22, 2022

Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are and continue to learn with all your might. Even if you are ridiculed, even if you suffer disappointments and setbacks, continue to advance and do not be defeated.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (12 June 1953) p.140

To listen to Mr. Toda's excellent lecture and hear his conviction makes me truly happy.

My health steadily gets worse. It's really pitiful. Met over dinner with K. and some associates at the I. restaurant at 9:00. I have no vitality. It's agonizing.
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