Those who have experienced great suffering must win in life and become happy

Daily Guidance Fri 05/18

 

For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Friday, May 18, 2012 Those who have experienced great suffering must win in life and become happy.  If you're always losing and miserable, then you are not practicing the Daishonin's Buddhism correctly.  You are not following the true path in life.  Buddhism teaches the means by which the sad can become happy and the happy become happier still. That is the reason for our practice.         Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Friday, May 18, 2012 Nichiren Buddhism is concerned with a very practical problem—how people should live their lives—and never for an instant allows its attention to be diverted from that problem.  And because this is its purpose, it demands as a first step that one conduct a thorough and fearless examination into the true nature of human life.           Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Friday, May 18, 2012 What we call faith is nothing unusual.  Faith means putting one's trust in the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, and the heavenly gods and benevolent deities, and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a woman cherishes her husband, as a man lays down his life for his wife, as parents refuse to abandon their children, or as a child refuses to leave its mother. The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1036 The Meaning of Faith Written to the lay nun Myoichi on May 18, 1280