Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 02 February 2021 - Year of Hope and Victory



Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

February 2, 2021 

Because life is long, you should not be impatient. What matters most is that you embrace the Gohonzon throughout your life. It is vitally important to continually challenge yourself to chant even a little more daimoku and to pray before the Gohonzon for the fulfillment of your desires. 

Events: 1987 SGI President Ikeda formally opens the World Peace Ikeda Auditorium, the 1st building designed and built specifically for SGI-USA activities.

 

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

February 2, 2021

Here I will make a great vow. Though I might be offered the rulership of Japan if I would only abandon the Lotus Sutra, accept the teachings of the Meditation Sutra, and look forward to rebirth in the Pure Land, though I might be told that my father and mother will have their heads cut off if I do not recite the Nembutsu, whatever obstacles I might encounter, so long as persons of wisdom do not prove my teachings to be false, I will never yield! All other troubles are no more to me than dust before the wind. 

 The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 280

The Opening of the Eyes

Written to Shijo Kingo in February 1272

 

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

February 2, 2021 

First of all, as to the question of where exactly hell and the Buddha exist, one sutra states that hell exists underground, and another sutra says that the Buddha is in the west. Closer examination, however, reveals that both exist in our five-foot body. This must be true because hell is in the heart of a person who inwardly despises his father and disregards his mother. It is like the lotus seed, which contains both blossom and fruit. In the same way, the Buddha dwells within our hearts - Nichiren

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (17 December 1957) p. 364 

The general director stopped by in the morning. He brought his dog with him. Left for Sensei's house in Meguro at 8:00. He talked with us for about an hour. Reported on yesterday's general meeting and other matters. Sensei treated us to strawberries. 

He said, "Daisaku, I want to fight for the next seven years until we attain a membership of two million households." "I will fight resolutely, with a hundred times the courage," I replied. 

Nevertheless, in the depths of my life I feel a hint of loneliness. My sadness will not disappear. How long will Sensei live? What is his condition? Ah, how distressing. How miserable. How terribly regrettable. Sensei, I know. I do.

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