When youth are awakened to a sense of mission, their power is limitless

Daily Guidance Tue 04/24

Pres Toda with youth division members at a swimming meet, 1953 For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, April 24, 2012 When youth are awakened to a sense of mission, their power is limitless. Ultimately, we have to entrust our hopes and visions for the future to the youth. This is a golden rule. Youth is pure. Youth will rise up to fulfill their ideals without calculation or self-interest. The fundamental spirit of a leader must be to reach out to such young people, work with them and bring out their capabilities and direct their youthful energies in a positive direction. Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, April 24, 2012 The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, wish to open the door of Buddha wisdom to all living beings, to allow them to attain purity. That is why they appear in the world.  They wish to show the Buddha wisdom to living beings, and therefore they appear in the world. They wish to cause living beings to awaken to the Buddha wisdom, and therefore they appear in the world.  They wish to induce living beings to enter the path of Buddha wisdom, and therefore they appear in the world. -The Lotus Sutra Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Tuesday, April 24, 2012 What matters most is that we honor the Buddha's words. As a rule, people in the world value what is distant and despise what is near, but this is the conduct of the ignorant.  Even the distant should be repudiated if it is wrong, while what is near should not be discarded if it accords with the truth.  Even though people may revere [their predecessors' doctrines], if those doctrines are in error, how can we employ them today?" The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 155 Reply to Hoshina Goro Taro Written to Hoshina Boro Taro on December 5, 1267