Sensei's Daily Encouragement - March 2 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
March 2, 2023

There is a saying, "To start an undertaking is easy, to maintain it is difficult." Though creating something new may seem daunting, it is in fact easy when compared to the far more challenging task of carrying on an existing enterprise, to keep it going, to develop it further. Everything depends on people, on capable successors. And our movement for kosen-rufu depends on young people. For that reason I am determined to do all that I can right now to raise genuine successors in the youth division.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
March 2, 2023

If in this present existence I am so fearful for my life that I fail to speak out, then in what future existence will I ever attain Buddhahood? Or in what future existence will I ever be able to bring salvation to my parents and my teacher? With thoughts such as these uppermost in my mind, I decided that I must begin to speak out. And, just as I had expected, I was ousted, I was vilified, I was attacked, and I suffered wounds.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 727
On Repaying Debts of Gratitude
Written to Joken-bo and Gijo-bo on July 21, 1276
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
March 2, 2023

The important thing is not whether we are optimistic or pessimistic but rather that, while keeping a careful eye on reality, we are neither overwhelmed by it nor content with the status quo. We must keep the lamps of our ideals alight while being ready to pioneer uncharted paths. Faith in life and in the human spirit is the necessary foundation for this approach.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (19 March 1958) p.388

Nerves and body truly fatigued from overseeing transportation for the monthlong pilgrimage commemorating the Grand Lecture Hall completion. For the remaining ten days, want to fulfill my mission honorably, with renewed resolution and without regret. My life's most noble work is to sincerely guide those awakened to the True Law…

Must seriously consider the Gakkai's future and how I will contribute. Yes – after all, there is no other way than to chant to and entrust everything to the Gohonzon.
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