Daily Encouragement

Posted on December 5, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

If you practice faith yet have an attitude of complaint, you will destroy your good fortune in direct proportion. Those who are full of complaint are not respected by others. From both Buddhist and secular perspectives, their behavior does not befit a wise or worthy person.

Daily Quote

Posted on December 4, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

Only when we learn to channel the energy we direct toward winning over others into winning over ourselves can we begin to develop our humanity.

from ikedaquotes.org

Daily Encouragement

Posted on December 4, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

In any earnest struggle, there come crucial challenges–mountains that must be scaled and conquered if we are to win. In Buddhist practice, too, we face such crucial challenges. If we hope to advance kosen-rufu and attain Buddhahood, then we must prevail over these mountains.