Daily Practice - 100 Day Campaign for a solid foundation in our lives

Our district in Romford has started a 100-day daimoku campaign, to create a solid foundation in ourselves, our family, our district, our relationships, our career, and kosen-rufu, following Fulwell District's shining example! We'll finish this campaign on the 18th of November - Soka Gakkai Founding Day. Would you like to take part with us? Here's how:

1. Decide what it is you want to change or transform
2. The amount of daimoku you will do per day towards this.  (1 hr. but no less than half hour)
3. Subscribe to Art of living and try to attend 70 % of meetings
4.  Contribute to the planning of the discussion meetings

Here's a wonderful daimoku chart to help you on your way to victory https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25421090/Daimoku%20Road.pdf Each square on the chart represents 15 minutes of chanting (1,000 daimoku). One hour's daimoku per day would equate to 400,000 daimoku over this 100-day period! 

You can chant either at home or with friends in the district. Why not call a friend and chant in your own homes, at the same time? This is called domei daimoku. Whichever way works for you, we really hope you can join us in this campaign. We've got an online calender so you can link your ichinen with global friends at http://www.doodle.com/7hga3753sm5gsqmv too.

Let's change karma into mission, and transform our obstacles into victories! Looking forward to hearing how you've won in November!

A Buddhist must not be defeated. I hope you will maintain an alert and winning spirit in your work and daily life taking courageous action and showing triumphant actual proof time and again.

President Ikeda, Faith into action

“You can’t build a tall building without first making its foundation solid and secure.”
Daisaku Ikeda

The important thing is to have the stand-alone spirit, the determination to overcome all difficulties within one’s current circumstances.  When one regards something as impossible the wall of difficulty appears higher and stronger and one loses the courage to observe reality as it is, eventually losing the ability to summon forth the power needed to confront it.  After making a half hearted effort and failing, one draws the cowardly conclusion that it was impossible, just as one has expected.

On the other hand, when one makes up one’s mind ‘to win without fail’, the imaginary wall of difficulty begins to crumble.  In one’s heart, the lion-like spirit awakens and one tackles one’s challenges head on, roaring out to them confidently, “Come on!”.

Thoughts on The New Human revolution’ Seikyo Shimbun October 6th 2003