Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Defeat for a Buddhist lies not in encountering difficulties but rather in not challenging them. Difficulties only truly become our destiny if we run away from them. We must fight as long a...
Posted by Tiera on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
If we are to survive, a stronghold of peace must be fashioned within the mind of every single man, woman and child on the earth. This stronghold must resolutely hold out against the invasion of ...
Posted by Tiera on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
One thing is certain: That is the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do somethin...
Posted by Tiera on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:12:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Efforts to reach out and engage others in dialogue with the aim of fostering mutual understanding and bringing people closer together may seem ordinary and unexciting, but they in fact constitute a bo...
Posted by Tiera on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:09:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Trust is difficult to earn and it is easily lost - the trust built over a decade can be shattered in an instant by one offhanded remark or deed. A person who is not swayed from their chosen path...
Posted by Tiera on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:42:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Anger is fundamentally an arrogant state of life. People in the state of anger are attached to the illusory assumption that they are better than others and direct their energy toward sustaining ...
Posted by Tiera on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:35:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Buddhism stresses the interconnectedness of all life. It is only the limited capacity of our senses that causes us to place so much stock in the separation between "them" and "us." Because...
Posted by Tiera on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:31:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
What does attaining Buddhahood mean for us? It does not mean that one day we suddenly turn into a Buddha or become magically enlightened. In a sense, attaining Buddhahood means that we hav...
Posted by Tiera on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:12:00 PST |
Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda |
Daily life can seem all too drab and unexciting. Living itself can sometimes seem a strain, and few of us realistically expect what joy we feel to last forever. But when we fall in love, l...
Posted by Tiera on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:47:00 PST |
Kaneko’s story |
When you say, "My husband raised me," what exactly do you mean? What did he teach you?
My husband often says to the youth division members, "Young men should be trained...
Posted by Tiera on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:45:00 PST |
