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October 10, 2008

10/10 Today’s Buddhist Food for Thought

Filed under: Buddhist Food For Thought — Liz Isaacs @ 12:29 pm
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Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, October 10, 2008


It doesn’t matter in what area, just keep working on your personal revolution to transform and improve yourself in the way most natural for you. The important thing is that you change in some positive way. There is surely no more exhilarating a life than one in which we write our own unique history of human revolution each day. And the growth and transformation we achieve in this way can convince people of the greatness of the Daishonin’s Buddhism more eloquently than anything else.

Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Friday, October 10, 2008 (Buddhism Day by Day)


Shakyamuni taught that the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage. -Nichiren.

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Friday, October 10, 2008 (Daily Wisdom)


The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day.


The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 401
Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265

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