Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
September 25, 2024
Everything ultimately depends on whether there is someone who is willing to wage a desperate all-out struggle, someone who will take 100 percent responsibility without relying on or leaving things to others, someone who will work with selfless dedication for the sake of the people without any concern for what others think. Such a person is a true leader and a genuine Buddhist.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
September 25, 2024
Ever since I began to study the Law handed down from Shakyamuni Buddha and undertook the practice of the Buddhist teachings, I have believed it is most important to understand one's obligations to others, and made it my first duty to repay such debts of kindness. In this world, we owe four debts of gratitude. One who understands this is worthy to be called human, while one who does not is no more than an animal.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 122
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
September 25, 2024
In the true reality of life as viewed from the enlightened state of the Buddha - who has broken free of all delusion - all things are equal, transcending distinctions and differences between subject and object, self and others, mind and body, the spiritual and the material. In its true aspect, life is infinitely expansive and eternal, without beginning or end. Life is dynamic; it is wisdom and compassion; it embodies the principle of the indivisibility of life and death; it is a universal law. The cosmos is not so big that life cannot embrace it, nor a particle of matter so small that life cannot be contained within it.
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Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (21 September 1955) p.246
To carefully record one's own feelings, thoughts, recollections, secrets and even resentment in a single work - this, interestingly enough, is significant. It expands one's personal world and promotes interaction, dialogue and encouragement between one's self and the self of another. I strongly dislike a diary written only as a mere record of events or in an obligatory manner. Until I spread my yet immature wings, until my incomplete construction is successfully finished, I will maintain my dream of free skies, a free world and the free realm of action hidden deep within my heart. It is the fall of my twenty-seven year.
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