"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.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Reconfigure


I especially love this quote from Daisaku Ikeda - it's from his Peace Proposal for 2007. (SGI is an NGO of The United Nations).

The title is "The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament", and he is speaking of the bold declaration for the abolishment of nuclear weapons made by his mentor, Josei Toda.

"He was calling for the steady and painstaking work of correctly repositioning and reconfiguring the function of anger in an inner world where wisdom and harmony prevail."

Isn't it great? This idea of inner reconfiguration as a daily(momentary)work?

I'm trying to practice it more than ever now. I want the one with the deeper vow, the one with the truest identity to be firmly established at the front and center of my inner life.

I'm so glad to have a mentor, and many friends in SGI, who show me that this can be done.

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