President Ikeda's Daily Encouragement November 21, 2011
If you practice faith while doubting its effects, you will get results that are at best unsatisfactory. This is the reflection of your own weak faith on the mirror of the cosmos. On the other hand, when you stand up with strong confidence, you will accrue limitless blessings.
Life is making practical efforts. It is challenging ourselves. It is advancing. Your youth never comes again. Please leave behind some achievement, please create something, as a record of your existence in this world.
GOSHO PASSAGE
There is definitely something extraordinary in the ebb and flow of the tide, the rising and setting of the moon, and the way in which summer, autumn, winter and spring give way to each other. Something uncommon also occurs when an ordinary person attains Buddhahood. At such a time, the three obstacles and four devils will invariably appear, and the wise will rejoice while the foolish will retreat.
(WND 637) The Three Obstacles and Four Devils
Written to Ikegami Hyoe no Sakan Munenaga on November 20, 1277
BUDDHISM DAY BY DAY - WISDOM FOR MODERN LIFE
Everyone born in this world has a unique role that only he or she can fulfill. Were this not the case, we would not be here. The universe never acts without cause; everything invariably has a reason for being. Even the weeds people love to loathe serve a purpose.
A YOUTHFUL DIARY - Tuesday, March 8 (1960) Cloudy, then clear
Spring is moving in quickly.
Spring, spring, like youth, spring is a jewel in life.
Youth must be noble at heart and energetic in action, transcending ideology, putting aside position, circumstances, poverty and wealth.
Youth trembling with anxiety as they face an unknown future. Youth of little experience, scared, surprised, hearts racing. Bold youth, recklessly striding forward.
The Gakkai as well, day by day, enters an important phase.
Others, unaware of this, seem so nonchalant.
Wish that I. would set his sights on a higher objective and come to talk with me from that perspective. It puts me at a loss. No matter how much advice one is given, sometimes that person's character never changes.
A sweet daphne tree my wife planted last year is flowering now. She left a branch of it on my desk. Ah, what a sweet smell these flowers have.
Regards,
Mr Chang C.L.
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