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Nichiren Daishonin - From the Change category:
Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Complaining category:
Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. Such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Courage category:
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 Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Discipline category:
One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Insecurity category:
If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land... (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Life category:
Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Limitations category:
Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid! (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Mirrors category:
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Mirrors category:
Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Money category:
Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Prayer category:
A coward cannot have any prayer answered. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Seeing category:
We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance... (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Strength category:
When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Suffering category:
Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Wisdom category:
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Worth category:
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. (Nichiren Daishonin)
Nichiren Daishonin - From the Worth category:
More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart. (Nichiren Daishonin)
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