Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
March 6, 2021
There is no need for you to be impatient. If you can achieve something very easily right from the start, you will find no sense of fulfillment or joy. It is in making tenacious, all-out efforts for construction that profound happiness lies.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
March 6, 2021
A passage from the Lotus Sutra reads that it is "the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand." Many hear about and accept this sutra, but when great obstacles arise, just as they were told would happen, few remember it and bear it firmly in mind. To accept is easy, to continue is difficult. But Buddhahood lies in continuing faith.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 471
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith
Written to Shijo Kingo on March 6, 1275
March 6, 2021
When we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the good and evil capacities of our lives begin to function as the exalted form of fundamental existence. Lives that are full of the pain of hell, lives that are in the state of hunger, lives warped by the state of anger -- such lives too begin to move in the direction of creating their own personal happiness and value. Lives being pulled toward misfortune and unhappiness are redirected and pulled in the opposite direction, toward good, when they make the Mystic Law their base.
Daisaku Ikeda – A Youthful Diary (26 May 1951) p.113
My district has many points that need improvement. U. and T. came by late in the evening. Inwardly, I feel some Gakkai members could use a little more common sense. Spontaneity deserves respect. Nonetheless, it should be appropriate. Actions that cause trouble for others can in no way be called spontaneity. Rather, we could conclude that those who act in such a way are taking advantage of Buddhism.
Qualities like courtesy and common sense should serve to enhance spontaneity. They should not exist merely for their own sake.
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