Sensei's Daily Encouragement - January 11 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.



    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
January 11, 2023
 
The role of leaders is important. Everything is determined by the leaders behaviour. There is a passage in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that says only those who possess genuine wisdom and virtue win the highest regard from people. It all comes down to you. You have to polish and develop yourselves. Should there be a leader or leaders in faith whom you do not like, all you have to do is determine not to become like them. All you have to do is decide that you will become leaders who will make everyone feel comfortable and at ease.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
January 11, 2023
 
The lion king is said to advance three steps, then gather himself to spring, unleashing the same power whether he traps a tiny ant or attacks a fierce animal. In inscribing this Gohonzon for [your daughter's] protection, Nichiren was like the lion king. This is what the sutra means by "the power [of the Buddhas] that has the lion's ferocity." Believe in this mandala with all your heart. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can therefore be an obstacle?"
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin , page 412
Reply to Kyo'o
Written to Kyo'o and her parents, Nichiogen-nyo and Shijo Kingo, on August 15, 1273
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
January 11, 2023
 
One tragedy of our times is the willingness of realists, in spite of impending crises, to criticize and obstruct people who expend their energy toward finding solutions. Their judgments, however, are superficial and conventional, and their attitude distances them from the essential quality of reality-change. Often the wisest realists cannot escape this trap. The challenge, then, is to create a new kind of reality that offers hope for changing the world.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (09 November 1957) p.352
 
To spend my life with the greatest leader in the world, talk with him and live alongside him, makes me the happiest person in the world.
 
Met T. in the train. Sensei said, "Introduce us!" then assuredly said: "If you are an expert on roads, then focusing on roads in Japan alone is still thinking too small. Please link together as one the roads of the Orient – Korea, China and India." T. Said, I will rely on you for the realm of the metaphysical, but I will attend to the
concrete realities myself," to which Sensei replied, "Yes, but one can only begin to accomplish things in the physical realm when firmly grounded in the metaphysical."
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