Sensei's Daily Encouragement - 21 February 2021 - Year of Hope and Victory



    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda

February 21, 2021

Friendship is strong. Friendship, camaraderie and unity in faith lie at the heart of the SGI. They come before the organization. We must never make the mistake of thinking that it is the other way around. The organization serves as a means for deepening friendship, comradeship and faith. To confuse the means and the end is a terrible mistake.

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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

February 21, 2021

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will be your staff to take you safely over the mountains of death. The Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, as well as the four bodhisattvas headed by Superior Practices, will lead you by the hand on your journey. If I, Nichiren, precede you in death, I will come to meet you at your last moment. If you should precede me, I will be sure to tell King Yama all about you. Everything that I tell you is true. According to the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren is the guide who knows the passes and gorges along the way."

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 451

The Swords of Good and Evil

Written to Hojo Yagenta on February 21, 1274

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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda

February 21, 2021

There is no way of life more desolate or more pitiful than one of ignorance of the fundamental joy that issues from the struggle to generate and regenerate one's own life from within. To be human is much more than the mere biological facts of standing erect and exercising reason and intelligence. The full and genuine meaning of our humanity is found in tapping the creative fonts of life itself.

 

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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 January 1958) p.378

There are three ways to live. Some people live in the past, some in the present and some in the future. The same principle applies to the Gakkai, as well as to society and politics.

Youth live for the future. The board of directors, therefore, should live actively for the present while watching over the youth who live for the future.