Sensei's Daily Encouragement - January 27 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.



    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
January 27, 2023
 
Viewing events and situations in a positive light is important. The strength, wisdom and cheerfulness that accompany such an attitude lead to happiness. To regard everything in a positive light or with a spirit of goodwill, however, does not mean being foolishly gullible and allowing people to take advantage of our good nature. It means having the wisdom and perception to actually move things in a positive direction by seeing things in their best light, while all the time keeping our eyes firmly focused on reality.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
January 27, 2023
 
If a vessel is free of these four faults of overturning, leaking, being defiled, and being mixed, then it can be called a perfect vessel. If the embankments around a moat do not leak, then the water will never escape from the moat. And if the mind of faith is perfect, then the water of wisdom, the great impartial wisdom, will never dry up.
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1015
Letter to Akimoto
Written to Akimoto Taro Hyoe-no-jo on January 27, 1280
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
January 27, 2023
 
Everyone has a right to flower, to reveal his or her full potential as a human being, to fulfill his or her mission in this world. You have this right, and so does everyone else. This is the meaning of human rights. To scorn, violate and abuse people's human rights destroys the natural order of things. Prizing human rights and respecting others are among our most important tasks.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (28 November 1957) p.359
 
My mentor's physical condition is not good. Yet no one is concerned about the gravity of Sensei's illness. They simply view his recovery as a foregone conclusion. Cannot help thinking of this as shallow. Can only sense the future, the prospects for kosen-rufu, the placement of personnel the deadlock we now face. Frightening. Sad. I never forget Sensei's guidance, even in my sleep.
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