SGI PRESIDENT DAISAKU IKEDA ON CHANTING DAIMOKU.. Being human ,its quiet natural for our minds to wander;for all sorts of thoughts and memories to surface.[....] There is no set form or pattern for how we should pray. Buddhism emphasises being natural. Therefore ,simply chant earnestly without pretence or artifice,just as you are. In time ,as your faith develops,youll naturally find it easier to focus your mind when you chant. Its natural for prayers to centre on your own desires and dreams. [...] By chanting very naturally,without affectation or reservation,for what you seek most of all youll gradually come to develop a higher and more expansive life - condition. Of course,its perfectly fine as well to chant with the resolve to become bigger -hearted person or for the welfare of your friends and for kosen-rufu - the happiness and flourishing of all humankind. With all your efforts in the practice of faith,you will accumulate an infinite amount of good fortune. Due to the fortune stored in your life,you will definitely be able to overcome even the greatest obstacles.. If you can open the kingdom of the spirit inside yourself, you are a king wherever you may be. You will be able to savour the delicious nectar of life,profound and inexhaustible. The eternal life of the universe exists within us.. NMRKđđâșâș Though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered. No matter what the circumstances, you should never concede defeat. Never conclude that youve reached a dead end, that everything is finished. You possess a glorious future. And precisely because of that, you must persevere and study. Life is eternal. We need to focus on the two existences of the present and the future and not get caught up in the past. We must always have the spirit to begin anew from this moment, to initiate a new struggle each day. Daisaku Ikeda
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