---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Shakyamuni Buddha called a person who was able to teach even one phrase of the Lotus Sutra to another an 'envoy of the Thus Come One' who 'was carrying out the Thus Come One's work' (cf. LS10, 162)-- in other words, a person who was enacting the behaviour of a Buddha. This is a perfect description of our activities as members of the SGI.
"A single concrete effort at the grassroots level is far nobler than a thousand grandiose but empty theories. The Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) cited the words [of the French philosophical writer Félicité Lamennais (1782-1854)]: 'We must look to ordinary people to find truly heroic and selfless acts.'"
"A single concrete effort at the grassroots level is far nobler than a thousand grandiose but empty theories. The Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) cited the words [of the French philosophical writer Félicité Lamennais (1782-1854)]: 'We must look to ordinary people to find truly heroic and selfless acts.'"
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is like the case of a person who falls to the ground, but who then pushes himself up from the ground and rises to his feet again."
(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1108)
(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1108)
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