True individuality never comes to full flower without hard work

Daily Guidance Fri 02/17

For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Friday, February 17, 2012 Life contains the capacity, like flames that reach toward heaven, to transform suffering and pain into the energy needed for value-creation, into light that illuminates darkness.   Like the wind traversing vast spaces unhindered, life has the power to uproot and overturn all obstacles and difficulties.  Like clear flowing water, it can wash away all stains and impurities. And finally life, like the great earth that sustains plants and vegetation, impartially protects all people with its compassionate, nurturing force. Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Friday, February 17, 2012 True individuality never comes to full flower without hard work.  Therefore, you're making a big mistake if you think that who you are right now represents all you are capable of being. Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Friday, February 17, 2012 Bodhisattva Superior Practices received the water of wisdom of the Mystic Law from the Thus Come One Shakyamuni and causes it to flow into the wasteland of the people's lives in the evil world of the latter age. This is the function of wisdom.  Shakyamuni Buddha transferred this teaching to Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and now Nichiren propagates it in Japan. The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 746 The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood Written to Soya Jiro Hyoe-no-jo Kyoshin on August 3, 1276