"Our single-minded determination for kosen-rufu,
and that alone,
creates the "time'" That time"
is when we set our lives in motion,
when we stand up of our own volition
and by our own will and strength.
"That time"
is when we summon forth strong faith
and take our place on the grand stage of kosen-rufu.
Goethe writes,
"The moment alone is decisive;
Fixes the life of man,
and his future destiny settles."
"That time" is the moment you resolve
from the depths of your heart,
"Now I will stand up and fight."
From that instant,
your destiny changes.
Your life develops.
History begins.
This is the spirit of the mystic principle of true cause.
That is the principle
of three thousand realms in a single moment of life.
The moment
you autonomously determine to accomplish something -
not when you do it because you are told to -
is "that time," the time of mission. "
Daisaku Ikeda, from The Heart of the Lotus Sutra, page 28
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