Relationship problems are opportunities to grow and mature

Daily Guidance Mon 12/19

 

 

 

For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Monday, December 19, 2011 Encouragement—offering encouraging words—is important. Nichiren Daishonin states, "The voice does the Buddha's work" (Gosho Zenshu, p. 708). Sincere words of encouragement have the power to give people hope and courage to go on living.       Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Monday, December 19, 2011 Relationship problems are opportunities to grow and mature. Such problems can be character building if you don't let them defeat you. That's why it's important not to isolate yourself. No one can exist apart from others. Remaining aloof from others cultivates selfishness, which accomplishes nothing.       Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Monday, December 19, 2011 Great evil portends the arrival of great good. If all of Jambudvipa were to be thrown into chaos, there could be no doubt that [this sutra would] "be widely propagated throughout Jambudvipa." The Kalpa of Decrease Receipient and date unknown