Sensei's Daily Encouragement -January 10 2025- Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
January 10, 2025
 
Buddhism is reason. It is vital therefore, that our lives and our activities in society also accord with reason. Please manifest the principle of "faith equals daily life," so that you will be trusted, respected and emulated by others. Bringing fragrant flowers of trust and humanism to bloom throughout society is one of the goals of Buddhism. To do things that others find strange and unnatural, that run counter to common sense—such actions go against the basic tenets of Buddhism and amount to slander of the Law.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
January 10, 2025
 
There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku.
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin , page 385
The True Aspect of All Phenomena
Written to Sairen-bo Nichijo on May 17, 1273 
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
January 10, 2025
 
The twentieth century was a century of war and peace, a century of politics and economics. The dawning twenty-first century holds the promise, however, to be a century of humanity and culture, a century of science and religion. Advance on this wonderful new path of humanism with pride and confidence, as gallant philosophers of action.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (06 November 1957) p.351
 
Overdoing it everyday. To gain abundant life force, morning and evening gongyo and chanting daimoku are basic. Is my personal faith powerful enough to encompass both practice for oneself and for others? Afraid that it is not.
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Sensei returned to Tokyo on an afternoon flight. He looks very fatigued. Day by day, the Gakkai is entering an important period of rapid growth. No one realizes this. They are all too carefree.
 
Many gossip or denounce me behind my back. Nevertheless, I have my own convictions and standards. This cannot be helped. In the future, the truth will become apparent.
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