Daily Guidance
31st July 2013
Wednesday
THE benefits that are obtained
through struggling for kosen-rufu are enormous. Worldly happiness is
fleeting. However, the good fortune one acquires by taking action for
the sake of Buddhism is eternal. I hope you will all advance with deep
pride and confidence.
WHEN one gazes into the chasm between life and death, status, fame and
wealth count for absolutely nothing. All that remains is one’s bare self
stripped of all external adornment. Only through Buddhism can we
arrange our lives on this essential level.
BECAUSE we have decided to embrace faith in the Daishonin’s Buddhism, we
must always move forward. And if we are going to move forward, it is
much more enjoyable if we do so with pride and confidence. It is better
to live with firm determination than to spend one’s life filled with
fear and insecurity.
BIRDS, for example, have their own language, their own speech. People do
not understand it, but other birds do. In the same way, the language of
gongyo and chanting daimoku reaches the Gohonzon and the realism of the
Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the three existences and the ten
directions. We might call it the language of the realms of the Buddhas
and bodhisattvas. That is why the voice of gongyo and daimoku are
directed to the Gohonzon, whether we understand it or not, reaches all
the Buddhas, bodhisattvas and heavenly deities.
BE a man of right, never of might.
Be a leader of the people, never the tool of authority.
Be the friend of the masses, never the slave of wealth.
Be a wise man of good, never a cunning evil one.
Taken from:http://dailyguidance.blogspot.com
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