Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
September 18, 2024
How can we create the greatest value in the short span of a lifetime? Those of us who embrace the Mystic Law know the answer. Our faith in and practice of the Daishonin's Buddhism enables us in this lifetime to solidify the world of Buddhahood in our lives and establish a state of eternal happiness. That is the purpose of faith in the Mystic Law, the purpose of our Buddhist practice.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
September 18, 2024
I entrust you with the propagation of Buddhism in your province.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1117
The Properties of Rice
Written to the lay priest Takahashi, date unknown
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
September 18, 2024
You have been able to accept, uphold, read, recite and ponder this sutra and to preach it for others. The good fortune you gain thereby is immeasurable and boundless. It cannot be burned by fire or washed away by water. Your benefits are such that a thousand Buddhas speaking all together could never finish describing them. Now you have been able to destroy all devils and thieves, to annihilate the army of birth and death, and all others who bore you enmity or malice have likewise been wiped out.
Good man, a hundred, a thousand Buddhas will employ their transcendental powers to join in guarding and protecting you. Among the heavenly and human beings of all the worlds, there will be no one like you. -The Lotus Sutra
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (18 May 1955) p.240
Read poetry by Walt Whitman.
Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads
of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and
sustenance.
Forever alive, forever forward,
Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble,
dissatisfied,
Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
But I know that they go toward the best - toward something great.
"Song of the Open Road," Leaves of Grass
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