Daily Encouragement

Posted on April 28, 2017 by SGI-USA Austin

How incredible it is to chant this wonderful daimoku each day! Nichiren writes, “There is no greater happiness for human beings than chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. The sutra [Lotus Sutra] says, ‘The people there [in my land] are happy and at ease'” (MW-1, 161). There is no joy, happiness and ease surpassing what we can attain through chanting daimoku. No matter how much you may pursue the things you love and skip gongyo to have a good time–all such fleeting, worldly pleasures pale beside the deep sense of satisfaction that comes from chanting daimoku.

Daily Quote

Posted on April 27, 2017 by SGI-USA Austin

Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

from ikedaquotes.org

Daily Encouragement

Posted on April 27, 2017 by SGI-USA Austin

Age is not an excuse for giving up. If you allow yourself to grow passive and draw back, it’s a sign of personal defeat. There may be a retirement age at work, but there is no retirement age in life. How then could there be any “going into retirement” in the world of faith? The Buddhist Law is eternal, extending across the three existences of past, present and future, and one of the benefits of faith is perennial youth and eternal life.