Sensei's Daily Encouragement -February 19 2025- Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide

   

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
February 19, 2025
 
This lifetime will never come again; it is precious and irreplaceable. To live without regret, it is crucial for us to have a concrete purpose and continually set goals and challenges for ourselves. It is equally important that we keep moving toward specific targets steadily and tenaciously, one step at a time.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
February 19, 2025
 
Be sure to strengthen your faith, and receive the protection of Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, and the Buddhas of the ten directions. Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase.
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 386
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
February 19, 2025
 
Chang-an writes, "If one befriends another person but lacks the mercy to correct him, one is in fact his enemy." The consequences of a grave offense are extremely difficult to erase. The most important thing is to continually strengthen our wish to benefit others - Nichiren
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (19 January 1958) p.377
 
Rested all morning. Always thinking I must take care of my health. My wife's mother came over. It was about the children's education, our living expenses and other matters. She, my wife and I talked. Peacefully, warmly.
Tomorrow, I will have to bother Sensei at home. Took my children to the public bath in the evening. Wrote until 1:00
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