Sensei's Daily Encouragement - January 28 2024 - Year of Fresh Departure for a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide

    

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
January 28, 2024
 
All of you are chanting for the happiness of many members - children of the Buddha - in your respective communities, you support and encourage them and work tirelessly on their behalf as if they were your own children. Your actions are truly those of great bodhisattvas, your state of life that of noble Buddhas.
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From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
January 28, 2024
 
Let others hate you if they will. What have you to complain of, if you are cherished by Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, and the Buddhas of the ten directions, as well as by Brahma, Shakra, and the gods of the sun and the moon? As long as you are praised by the Lotus Sutra, what cause have you for discontent?"
 
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 464
The Unity of Husband and Wife
Written to Nichigen-nyo on January 27, 1275
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
January 28, 2024
 
Why are human beings born? This question has posed a great challenge. Josei Toda lucidly set forward his conclusion. Namely, that this world is a place for people to, as the Lotus Sutra states, "enjoy themselves at ease." We were born here in order to thoroughly savour the joys of life. Faith in Nichiren Buddhism enables one to bring forth the great life force needed to lead such an existence.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (03 December 1957) p.360
 
It's getting cold – at the headquarters, in the street and in my house as well. On the other side of winter the bright sunshine of spring awaits. Life always faces the bitter north wind and awaits the coming of spring.
Life and society are complex. But life is long, and society, vast. Without fear of failure, must polish my body and mind while being buffeted by the great north wind. While walking or riding on the train, I ponder such principles as 'all is changing, nothing is constant' and the four virtues – eternity, happiness, true self and purity.
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