Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
December 15, 2023
The good fortune that accrues to parents who apply themselves diligently to SGI activities will protect their children without fail. Based on this conviction, you must still make positive efforts to open and sustain dialogue with your children, not allowing yourselves to neglect them, claiming that you're too busy or it can't be helped, or telling yourselves that somehow things will be taken care of. Unless you exert yourselves in this way, you are irresponsible parents who lack compassion.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
December 15, 2023
"This person as he advances through this world" means that the first five hundred years of the Latter Day of the Law will witness the advent of Bodhisattva Superior Practices, who will illuminate the darkness of ignorance and earthly desires with the light of the five characters of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. In accordance with this passage, Nichiren, as this bodhisattva's envoy, has urged the people of Japan to accept and uphold the Lotus Sutra. His unremitting efforts never slacken, even here on this mountain.
Letter to Jakunichi-bo
This letter was written to a young disciple named Jakunichi-bo Nikke, the son of the lord of Okitsu, Kazusa Province . It is dated the sixteenth day of the ninth month, with no year indicated, though it is believed to be 1279.
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
December 15, 2023
To challenge yourselves to your heart's content in your youth so that you are left with no regrets later, to grow, to make dynamic strides forward - this is the noblest way to live. Victory in youth leads to victory in life.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (08 May 1957) p.331
More rain. The train was packed. My strength is all but gone. Could not even read the paper while on the train. Neither society nor my life affords me any slack…
At 6:00, a farewell gathering for Chapter Chief B., who is being reassigned. Attended with Sensei. The dinner lasted until 10:00. Is M. a person of backbone? Fed up with a life of criticism. Must forge a firm, dauntless character.
Returned home alone, without the company of friends.
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