Friday, May 27, 2016

What is the true joy in life? What is the purpose of our Buddhist practice?

28/5/16, 8:26:13 AM: Kwee! Chang: Soka Gakkai International
Buddhism in Action for Peace


Daily Encouragement
May 28

What is true joy in life? This is a difficult question--and one that has occupied a great many thinkers and philosophers. Joy can quickly give way to suffering. Joy is short and suffering long. Also what passes for joy in society is superficial. It cannot compare with the joy deriving from the Mystic Law. The key then lies in cultivating a state of mind where we can declare without reservation that life itself is a joy. This is the purpose of our Buddhist practice.
Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President

[Selected from published guidance]


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