Attaining Buddhahood is a constant, moment-to-moment, inner struggle to overcome our fundamental darkness and delusion

Daily Guidance Wed 01/02

For Today and Tomorrow Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda Wednesday, January 2, 2013 The people are most important and noble.  President Toda was firmly convinced of this point.  And I have advanced with the same spirit.  This is also Nichiren Daishonin's undying spirit.  Please always treasure and protect this organization of the people that is the SGI. Events 1928: Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president, is born. Seen here with his mother. Happy Birthday Sensei!!!! Buddhism Day by Day Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda Wednesday, January 2, 2013 In Nichiren Buddhism, attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent, godlike Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being.  In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future.  Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment, inner struggle between revealing our innate Dharma nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental darkness and delusion Daily Wisdom From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Wednesday, January 2, 2013 The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness.  The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law.  Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion? The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 132-33 Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man Recipient unknown; written in 1265