To live without regret, we must have a concrete purpose, continually setting goals and challenges for ourselves.

Daily Guidance Tue 06/26

For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, June 26, 2012 This spirit of engaging others in dialogue on equal terms is the essence of Buddhism.  Ordering people about in a high-handed, arrogant manner, shouting at them to do one's bidding is truly deplorable behavior.  Such a world has no relation to Buddhism.  Through dialogue Shakyamuni opened hearts that were closed, softened hearts that had grown hard and melted hearts that were frozen. Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Tuesday, June 26, 2012 This lifetime will never come again; it is precious and irreplaceable. To live without regret, we must have a concrete purpose, continually setting goals and challenges for ourselves.  And we need to keep moving toward those specific targets steadily and tenaciously, one step at a time. Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Tuesday, June 26, 2012 This is the first time that the fundamental darkness has erupted in the lives of ordinary people caught in the illusions of thought and desire.  Even if they pray to the gods, the Buddha, or the Lotus Sutra, these calamities will only be aggravated. But it is different when the votary of the Lotus Sutra offers prayers to the essential teaching of the Lotus Sutra.  In the final analysis, unless we succeed in demonstrating that this teaching is supreme, these disasters will continue unabated. The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1114 The Treatment of Illness Written to Toki Jonin on June 26, 1278