Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
I hope that leaders will earnestly pray for the prosperity, safety and happiness of the members who are all so infinitely noble and praiseworthy. May you also never forget to develop yourselves and pray to become people who are liked and trusted by the members, who can work unstintingly for the members' happiness and well-being.
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
I do not know whether these trials equal or surpass those of the Buddha. Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, T'ien-t'ai, and Dengyo, however, cannot compare with me in what they suffered. Had it not been for the advent of Nichiren in the Latter Day of the Law, the Buddha would have been a teller of great lies, and the testimony given by Many Treasures and by the Buddhas of the ten directions would have been false. In the 2,230 and more years since the Buddha's passing, Nichiren is the only person in the entire land of Jambudvipa who has fulfilled the Buddha's words.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 997
On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
Written to all followers (and entrusted to Shijo Kingo on October 1, 1279)
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Time is constantly passing, one moment following fast upon the other. That's why it's so important to press forward boldly, without complaining or fretting. The person who looks to the future and keeps moving ahead is eternally youthful. Such a person's heart is filled with flowers and shines brilliantly.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (27 March 1957) p.329
Stomach cramps kept me in bed in the morning. My wife was extremely worried; she said I should see the doctor. Went to work in the afternoon. The devil of illness… Sorry to worry Sensei.
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Home just after 8:00. While lying down, carefully polished the Osaka House of Councillors election campaign strategy. Statistically speaking, we cannot win. Our only choice is to fight with the spirit to "lodge an arrow deep into a rock."* Pray, fight, open the way; forge a path.
* "Lodge an arrow…": A reference to the story of General Stone Tiger, whose simple arrow penetrated a boulder he had mistaken for the tiger that had mauled his mother to death.
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