Sensei's Daily Encouragement - March 15 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
March 15, 2023

We must take the enemies of the Buddha to task. We absolutely cannot remain silent when we see people distorting and corrupting the Daishonin's teaching. To speak out resolutely and clarify what is correct and what is erroneous is the Soka Gakkai spirit. If we simply try to be amiable and avoid making waves, then we will play right into the hands of people with malicious intent.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
March 15, 2023

[The Nirvana Sutra] compares "it gradually becomes deeper" to the Lotus Sutra leading everyone, from ordinary people who lack understanding to sages who possess it, to attain the Buddha way.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 39
The Universal Salty Taste
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
March 15, 2023

Buddhism comes down to practice. This means making a personal determination and steadfastly taking action to accomplish it, no matter what obstacles may arise. If we aren't striving to open a way forward, what we are doing cannot be called Buddhist practice. We will only enter the path to Buddhahood by making tireless effort based on the same determination as the Buddha.
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Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (05 December 1952) p.119

The clear sky is more precious than ten thousand gold pieces. There are days when I feel deep gratitude and appreciation for the sun. From the perspective of the great workings of nature, how trivial matters of human conflict or political unrest appear to be! How limited and narrow people are!

A religion like the sun - no, greater, as the universe itself. This is the Daishonin's Buddhism. No philosophy or religion other than this Buddhism can illuminate the darkness of the ten thousand years of the Latter Day of the Law.

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