The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda on April 18, 1974, at the fourth entrance ceremony of Soka University, Tokyo, which he founded.
"Indulgence and indolence produce nothing creative. Complaints and evasions reflect a cowardly spirit; they corrupt and undermine life's natural creative thrust. When life is denuded of the will to struggle creatively, it sinks into a state of hellish destructiveness directed at all that lives.
Never for an instant forget the effort to renew your life, to build yourself anew. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway of life itself. This is not an easy task. Indeed, it may be the most severely challenging struggle there is. For opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the door to all the mysteries of the universe."- Dr. Daisaku Ikeda
The Flowering of Creative Life Force
Dr. Ikeda , a known peace activist when talks about life and creativity makes me feel the dynamism of human lives......
World today - land of ours - the globe, has done deeds enough to attract worst of karma , our bags of causes have been increasingly filled with more and more negatives to count because of which it looks more like an incessant hell of suffering rather than a heaven of tranquil light.
But the question is.. what i, as a mere individual do about it?
Okay... have I ever asked myself the question what am I , whom am I originated from ? what do I want to do..?
Am i among those whose ultimate goals remain to get a good job, get a good car bcz my neighbor has a better one ( better only in brands ), to party in expensive clubs and hotels, get bigger house each decade of my life....?
Okay what after i achieve it all? then aim fr even bigger cars and houses ... bigger bank balance...?this way what am I really contributing to you? nothing? hmmmmmm does that counts for a good deed.....?
When we used to play in kindergarten, our teachers used to tell us ,"do one good deed a day" and if jus for a single day we used to help our mothers to make tables for dinner , we used to feel proud, mum used to tell us to throw garbage in the dustbin...... to not to fight with classmates and be good boys and girls....
But now.... when we all have grown up... we experiment worst of things unknowingly.... throwing garbage in the street for example., fighting and abusing people who hit our cars even slightly........ as if he deliberately wanted to hit......
The author above is a firm believer of the practice of "concentration and insight". he says, whatever thoughts we create it becomes a vibration and is transmitted to our universe... and universe sends us back the results based on our thinking words and thereby actions..... even a thought can be the reason fr what i get as a result........
That's why it is said: think positive , be positive, get positive.If this all holds true then... what kind of vibes am i sending to my environment or universe....?
rephrasing my question: I , as a child .. what kind of feelings, thoughts, and vibes am I sending to my mother nature...... ?those, full of jealousy, ignorance, self praise or self pity? isn't it all destructive? Is this the kind of sons and daughters should we become...?
Lets think twice at least ...... okay imagine it this way.... If you are sitting in a restaurant and having your evening supper there, and a girl walks down and passes your table in a short skirt and high heels .... our first thought is, "what the hell she thinks of her self, she is such an attitude. " This how we create negative thoughts at times even to those whom we hardly even know, so what about those whom we know...............
Lets see, if we can correct this attitude of ours and basing on this , if we are successful in changing our lives in a month.... lets we all do this exercise fr a month and report changes in our immediate environment and show our love fr nature as its the month for environment.
When we will be doing this we will be able to experience an utter creativity in our selves....... We are made to create, either good or bad..... lets do the the challenging thing and create something better.....
have a good time :)
