Sensei's Daily Encouragement - June 19 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
June 19, 2023
 
I hope that you will lead immortal, invincible and joyous lives, filled with confidence, pride and good cheer. I also hope you will display inspiring leadership, while doing your utmost to protect your respective areas.
 
Events
1996 The Florida Nature and Culture Center opens.
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From the Writing of Nichiren Daishonin
June 19, 2023
 
It is an undeniable fact that fire can at once reduce even a thousand year old field of pampas grass to ashes, and that the merit one has formed over a hundred years can be destroyed with a single word.
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 636
The Three Obstacles and Four Devils
Written to Ikegami Hyoe no Sakan Munenga on November 20, 1277
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
June 19, 2023
 
If you always have a shallow perspective and pay attention only to trivial things, you are sure to get bogged down in all kinds of petty worries and concerns, and not be able to move forward. Even relatively minor hurdles or problems will seem insurmountable. But if you look at life from a broad viewpoint, you naturally spot the way to solve any problem you may confront. This is true when we consider our own personal problems as well as those of society and even the future of the entire world.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (6 April 1954) p166
 
Rained all day long. A gloomy day. Have recently deeply realized that life force is the greatest fundamental requirement for happiness.
Live and move within society. Eventually I will die.
For 10,000 people, 10,000 unique lives. Simply amazing. What does equality really indicate. Have come to understand the law of causality inherent in life.
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