Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda for today and yesterday

[Derwin Lycan Sherwood]

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, June 22, 2010:

It's foolish to be obsessed with past failures. And it's just as foolish to be self-satisfied with one's small achievements. Buddhism teaches that the present and the future are what are important, not the past. It teaches us a spirit of unceasing challenge to win over the present and advance ever toward the future. Those who neglect this spirit of continual striving steer their lives in a ruinous direction. 

 

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Wednesday, June 23, 2010:

Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, later remarked that one's inner life is the true Olympics. Life itself is an Olympics where we strive each day to better own personal records.