Daily Encouragement

Posted on March 27, 2020 by SGI-USA Austin

While controlling your mind, which is at once both extremely subtle and solemnly profound, you should strive to elevate your faith with freshness and vigor. When you do so, both your life and your surroundings will open wide before you and every action you take will become a source of benefit. Understanding the subtle workings of one’s mind is the key to faith and attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime.

Daily Encouragement

Posted on March 21, 2020 by SGI-USA Austin

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem to not be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha’s wisdom—so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer were answered immediately, we’d become lazy and degenerate. And we couldn’t hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

Daily Encouragement

Posted on March 18, 2020 by SGI-USA Austin

Let us do our utmost to sustain the wonderfully warm atmosphere of the SGI—an atmosphere where members feel free to discuss whatever is on their minds. Unless we do so, our organization will stop growing, stop developing. The SGI is a world of humanity—of the heart, of faith, of compassion. It is a world of unity and mutual inspiration. That is why it is strong. If we continue to value and promote these qualities, the SGI will continue to grow and develop forever. I want to declare here and now the atmosphere where we can discuss anything is fundamental to the SGI.