Daily Wisdom
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Thursday, August 16, 2012:
A person's death is not determined by illness. In our own time, the people of Iki and Tsushima, though not suffering from illness, were slaughtered in an instant by the Mongols. It is not certain that, because one is ill, one will die. And could not this illness of your husband's be the Buddha's design, because the Vimalakirti and Nirvana sutras both teach that sick people will surely attain Buddhahood? Illness gives rise to the resolve to attain the way.
The Good Medicine for All Ills
Written to the lay nun Myoshin on August 16, probably in 1278
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