Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Life is a process of ongoing challenge. Those who lead lives of boundless challenge realize boundless growth. In a time of tumultuous change, what people need most is the vitality to challenge their circumstances and the wisdom to open the treasure-house of knowledge and to ceaselessly strive to create new value.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Since I have realized that only the Lotus Sutra teaches the attainment of Buddhahood by women, and that only the Lotus is the sutra of true requital for repaying the kindness of our mother, in order to repay my debt to my mother, I have vowed to enable all women to chant the daimoku of this sutra.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 931
The Sutra of True Requital
Written to the lay nun Sennichi on July 28, 1278
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The Buddha's compassion is perfectly equal and impartial. The Buddha views all beings as his own children and strives to elevate them to attain his same enlightened state of life. It's not that there are no differences among people. Rather, it's that the Buddha, while fully recognizing people's differences, does not discriminate among them.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (31 July 1950) p.40
I'm returning home after midnight each night. The effect is beginning to tell on me a little.
Next month we'll hold the summer course at the head temple. I've been looking forward to it all year. I'll definitely go, no matter what.
A sweltering July. Somehow I've manage to struggle through this month, too...
August is our month. I'll strive again, with all my youthful passion. As befits a youth who lives in pursuit of an ideal, a youth burning with great joy.
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