Sensei's Daily Encouragement - January 20 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.



    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
January 20, 2023

In this lifetime, to demonstrate the power of faith in the Mystic Law to others some of you may have been born into poverty so that you could show actual proof by gaining secure and comfortable lives. Some of you may have been born with ill health so that you could show proof by growing strong and healthy. Irrespective of your situations, however, the light of faith in the depths of your beings will continue to shine on eternally with diamond-like brilliance.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
January 20, 2023

Strengthen your resolve more than ever. Ice is made of water, but it is colder than water. Blue dye comes from indigo, but when something is repeatedly dyed in it, the color is better than that of the indigo plant. The Lotus Sutra remains the same, but if you repeatedly strengthen your resolve, your color will be better than that of others, and you will receive more blessings than they do.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 615
The Supremacy of the Law
Written to Oto and her mother, Nichimyo, on August 4, 1275
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
January 20, 2023

A complete lack of exertion or stress may seem desirable, but in fact it results in boredom and stagnation. It is essential that we keep making continuous efforts amid challenging circumstances, pushing forward with dynamic creativity and breaking through all obstacles. That is the way to develop new strength and achieve fresh growth, whether it be in the case of an individual or an organization.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (20 November 1957) P 356/357

Read Collected Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Though he is not a favorite of mine, I am surprised at the excellence of his style and descriptiveness. He may be one of Japan's great literary masters.

A sense of mission and hope is welling up from deep within me that sometime during my lifetime, I will record for posterity a record of President Toda's life. Want my mind to become clear and precise.

In the quiet of the late night, my wife, beautiful in her Japanese kimono, brings me tea. The clock reads 1:10 a.m.
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