"Third Stage of Life" (9.1)
None of us can avoid this with the passage of time.
What is physical aging?
The aging process occurs more rapidly in those who adopt this habit.
What is thinking they have done enough and remain attached to the past?
The first secret to old age relies on this concept.
What is not worrying?
Having these things in place for the day when we get up in the morning is important in terms of staying alert and healthy.
What are firm goals and plans?
President Ikeda talks about the Buddhist attitude toward aging with reference to three specific realities Shakyamuni references in his teachings as forms of ignorance.
What are the realities of aging, sickness and death?
The most important challenges of this stage of life is how to live in a way that is true to ourselves until the very last and show this to those around us.
What is the Third Stage of Life?
In a certain respect, it's only natural that we dislike this characteristic of life.
What is growing old?
This person once remarked that the end of hope is the beginning of death.
What is French President Charles de Gaulle.
There is none of this in realm of faith.
What is retirement?
In one of his writings, Nichiren Daishonin notes that the long Cho Dynasty of an ancient country flourished because its founder King Wen took care of elderly people and respected their wisdom.
What is China?
After all is stripped away-wealth, renown, social status-this is the only thing that remains after one's death.
What is the example of how one has lived one's life?
According to our Buddhist teachings, the struggle against aging is really against this concept.
What is fear of facing new challenges?
It is generally said that mental attitude has a vital influence on this.
What is longevity?
President Ikeda states that the fundamental means for staying in good health is in these two practices.
What is daily chanting and Soka Gakkai activities?
People have a tendency to do this toward whatever us different from themselves.
What is scorn or despise?
What matters is how much we can improve the quality of our lives during our time at this place- however long it may be.
What is Earth?
The Daishonin encourages not to avert our gaze from death but to do this instead.
What is to face it head-on?
Having a sense of humor is the second key secret to living a vigorous old age. An old saying from this county states: "A joyful heart is good medicine."
What is Europe?
Our voices reach all of these protective functions of the universe when chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
What is the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and heavenly deities?
As long as people today try to ignore these realities, they are rejecting their own possibilities for the future.
What is aging, sickness, and death?
What matter is that we live our lives without this, moving forward in our work for kosen-rufu that we continue to cherish in our hearts a shining purpose and reason for living, whatever our age.
What is regret?
Nichiren Buddhism teaches the fundamental means for transforming a life bound by the four sufferings of birth, aging, sickness and death into these four virtues.
What are the virtues of eternity, happiness, true self, and purity?
What is Albert Schweitzer?
Our practice of gongyo and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo represents a sublime ceremony which bring the microcosm of our lives into harmony with something must greater.
What is the fundamental rhythm of the macrocosm, the universe?
Those who build an indestructible self through engaging in activities of this kind will shine.
What is kosen-rufu activities?