Sensei's Daily Encouragement - March 30 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
March 30, 2023

There are many elements involved in a prayer being answered, but the important thing is to keep praying until it is. By continuing to pray, you can reflect on yourself with unflinching honesty and begin to move your life in a positive direction on the path of earnest, steady effort. Even if your prayer doesn't produce concrete results immediately, your continual prayer will at some time manifest itself in a form greater than you had ever hoped.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
March 30, 2023

To mix other practices with this Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is a grave error. A lantern is useless when the sun rises. How can dewdrops be beneficial when the rain falls? Should one feed a newborn baby anything other than its mother's milk? No addition of other medicines is needed with a good medicine.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 903
The Teaching for the Latter Day
Written to Nanjo Tokimitsu on April 1, 1278
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
March 30, 2023

It is important to develop your character to be as powerful as a mighty river. Continue to advance bravely in the face of every challenge, paying no heed to the obstacles in your way. Become a great river of bottomless compassion and wisdom, overflowing with boundless invincibility and passion.
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Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (25 December 1952) p.124

T. came over in the morning. He is sincerity itself. Just a few days remain in this seven-hundredth year since the establishment of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. Constantly thinking about next year. Today, again, I worked to my heart's content.

Short of money. Now in utter poverty. What shall I do?

Attended a dragon Corps leaders meeting. Deeply delighted to see such spirited youths…
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