Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
July 12, 2012
I imagine that some of you have family members who are not yet practicing Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. There is no need to be impatient or to agonize over this. Whether people take faith has to do with their mystic connection with Buddhism, which takes a variety of different forms. Important is the presence of one person who is practicing. One person's attainment of Buddhahood brings happiness to family members and relatives and all those around him or her. When a single sun rises, everything is illuminated.
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From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
July 12, 2012
When I think that I will surely eradicate these karmic impediments and in the future go to the pure land of Eagle Peak, though various grave persecutions fall on me like rain and boil up like clouds, since they are for the sake of the Lotus Sutra, even these sufferings do not seem like sufferings at all.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 191
The Origin of the Service for Deceased Ancestors
Written to Shijo Kingo on July 12, 1271
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
July 12, 2012
No one can better bask in summer's balm than those who have endured winter's bite. Similarly, it is those who have suffered through life's darkest hours who are able to truly savour the bright dawn of happiness. The person who has transformed the worst of fate into the best of fortune is life's champion.
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Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (23 June 1954) p.182
Seriously reflected on my morning lack of daimoku...
Would like to develop the habit of reading, even if only a little, every morning.
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