Warm greetings to each and every member of our wonderful SGI-USA community.
I truly feel at a loss for words to express how appreciative I am by everyone’s incredible support, given so freely and in so many ways, for kosen-rufu in America and beyond.
In these most confusing and trying times, what enables a person—any person—to move forward and maintain hope?
One key point is sincerity, or earnestness. In “The Gift of Rice,” Nichiren Daishonin states:
As for the matter of becoming a Buddha, ordinary people keep in mind the words “earnest resolve” and thereby become Buddhas. When we carefully consider what exactly earnest resolve refers to, it is … that in a time of famine, offering the food that is the only means for sustaining one’s life that day to the Buddha is offering one’s life to the Buddha. (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, pp. 1125–26)
Amid unprecedented instability, economic and otherwise, you have continued to support kosen-rufu through thick and thin, giving so sincerely of your time and financial resources, the most precious things a person can have.
There can naturally be no doubt that the benefits you will receive, both conspicuous and inconspicuous, will reflect not only in your lives but in those of your family and friends, now and into the distant future.
In closing, I would like to pledge anew with profound gratitude on behalf of the SGI-USA our determination to make the wisest and best use of your precious contributions to support our movement, our members and, in so doing, to support the fundamental transformation of society that we’re all seeking.
Thank you,
Adin Strauss
SGI-USA General Director
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