"It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life." -Daisaku Ikdea-

As I begin my 21st year of Buddhist practice with SGI-USA, I find great joy in sharing quotes, principles, guidances and poems from Daisaku Ikeda . Some are poems and thoughts of my own. I hope you will be encouraged.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Question



I wonder about the principle
Of taking upon oneself the suffering of others.
Does the creation of unity depend on this?
What choice is there?

Is it possible that to refuse
Is to remain imprisoned in the same of one's own?

Isn't this the point in Buddhism that means "practice"?

To continue to return;
To restore one's own humanity
With the process of bravely opening oneself to others
And their anguish?

Feeling it
Willingly -
Becoming strong enough
To transform it
Together.

-Bethany Wild-

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