Sensei's Daily Encouragement - September 28 2023 - Year of Youth and Triumph

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
September 28, 2023
 
Faith means making a hundred percent effort ourselves - in our daimoku and in our actions. When we practice in this way, the Buddhist gods will lend us their protection. We mustn't have a complacent, dependent attitude in faith, chanting haphazardly without definite goals and making only halfhearted efforts in the belief that we'll automatically be protected. Depth of determination and unshakable character are vital. Those possessing these qualities are second to none in faith.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
September 28, 2023
 
Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 832
The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon
Written to Nichinyo on August 23, 1277
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
September 28, 2023
 
Your home is where your loved ones live. Your home is the place where you work together with your fellow human beings to build a paradise, a realm of peace and prosperity for all. When we are asked where our home is, we can answer: "My home is the world. Everywhere in the world where my fellow human beings live, all of it, is my home."
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (26 September 1955) p.248
 
My oldest son had a high fever in the morning. Really suffering physically myself. A gray day. Understand the limits of the physical body. But the power called life force surpasses both physical and spiritual power. It is a mysterious energy that sets into motion functions far stronger than spiritual or physical power alone. Life force arises from the workings of one's determination. Actually it wells forth limitlessly through the power of the Mystic Law and the power of faith. It comes from practice. Will test this through my own experience and show actual proof.
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