Sensei's Daily Encouragement - March 18 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
March 18, 2023

Let us do our utmost to sustain the wonderfully warm atmosphere of the SGI - an atmosphere where members feel free to discuss whatever is on their minds. Unless we do so, our organization will stop growing, stop developing. The SGI is a world of humanity - of the heart, of faith, of compassion. It is a world of unity and mutual inspiration. That is why it is strong. If we continue to value and promote these qualities, the SGI will continue to grow and develop forever. I want to declare here and now the atmosphere where we can discuss anything is fundamental to the SGI.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
March 18, 2023

Regard your service to your lord as the practice of the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by "No worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true reality." I hope you will deeply consider the meaning of this passage.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 905
Reply to a Believer
Written to Shijo Kingo on april 11, 1278
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
March 18, 2023

Happiness doesn't exist on the far side of distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. Not you, however, sitting in idle passivity. It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge and overcome one obstacle after another, as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond.
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Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (9 December 1952) p. 120

Snow fell from noon. A cold day. Rain, wind and snow in nature, as well as the rain, wind and snow that exist within our lives, all become a stage setting for developing and polishing ourselves.

The great universe possesses the Ten Worlds. My life, too contains the Ten Worlds. So there should be nothing in the world to fear.
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