Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
September 15, 2023
I hope that each of you will realize success in your respective fields, fully recognizing that success means not giving up halfway but resolutely pursuing the path you have chosen. To this end, it is also important that you realize that the place where you work is a place for forging your character and growing as a human being. By extension, therefore, it is a place for your Buddhist practice, a place for practicing and deepening your faith. When you view things from this angle, all your complaints will disappear. No one is more pathetic than someone who is constantly complaining.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
September 15, 2023
The deeper the roots, the more luxuriant the branches. The farther the source, the longer the stream. All sutras other than the Lotus Sutra have shallow roots and short streams, while the Lotus Sutra has deep roots and a distant source. That is why the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai stated that the Lotus Sutra would survive and spread even in the evil latter age.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 940
The Father the Source, the Longer the Stream
Written to Shijo Kingo on September 15, 1278
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
September 15, 2023
When one is deluded, it is as if one were dreaming. And when one is enlightened, it is as if one had awakened - Nichiren
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (02 May 1955) p.237
My health has been growing steadily worse. Feel my life gradually coming to an end. How sad. How vexing.
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The sky is dark; my heart, too, is in the shadows. If my health deteriorates any more, I feel I am destined to fall into an abyss.
Entering a struggle with the devil of illness, a battle with the demon of death. The end equals a beginning. Must summon up my determination in faith like a raging blaze, and rely only on the Gohonzon.
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