Sensei's Daily Encouragement - June 4 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph.

   

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
June 4, 2023
 
 Death will come to each of us some day. We can die having fought hard for our beliefs and convictions, or we can die having failed to do so. Since the reality of death is the same in either case, isn't it far better that we set out on our journey toward the next existence in high spirits and with a bright smile on our faces, knowing that in everything we did, we did the very best we could, thrilling with the sense "That was truly an interesting life?"
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 From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
June 4, 2023
 
 However great the good causes one may make, or even if one reads and copies the entirety of the Lotus Sutra a thousand or ten thousand times, or attains the way of perceiving three thousand realms in a single moment of life, if one fails to denounce the enemies of the Lotus Sutra, it will be impossible to attain the way.
 
 The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 78
Encouragement to a Sick Person
Written to Nanjo Hyoe Shichiro on December 13, 1264
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 Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
June 4, 2023
 
 It's so important to keep the promises made to friends. This is the true meaning of friendship. To become people who can do so, however, we must first learn to keep our resolutions - the promises we have made to ourselves.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (16 February 1954) p.158
 
Sensei struggles relentlessly against the devil of sickness.
I, too, continuously battle the same devil.
Where there is passionate faith, there must be victory. I am young; my life begins from now. If only I can be the engine that turns President Toda's plans and ideas into reality…
Life is nothing but struggle and advancement. Such is my destiny.
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