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February 2023

The Ukraine crisis that erupted in February last year continues with no prospect for cessation. The intensified hostilities have inflicted great suffering in population centers and destroyed infrastructure facilities, compelling large numbers of civilians, including many children and women, to live in a state of constant peril. More than 7.9 million people have been forced

Over the past year, all of you, our dedicated members everywhere—not least the uncrowned heroes who deliver the Seikyo Shimbun each day—have advanced steadily in your tireless efforts for the sake of Buddhism, the happiness of others and the welfare of your communities, societies and the world. If we were to calculate the total distance

“A blue fly, if it clings to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, can travel ten thousand miles, and the green ivy that twines around the tall pine can grow to a thousand feet. I was born as the son of the one Buddha, Shakyamuni, and I serve the king of scriptures, the Lotus Sutra.

The new SGI Guam Ikeda Peace and Culture Center opened in August 2022. Located adjacent to the Guam International Trade Center, site of the SGI’s founding, this 15,000-square-foot center features a main room with a 275-seat capacity. A stormwater management system, hurricane-resistant design, large fans, all LED lighting and a rooftop covered with solar panels

Through mutually inspiring relations, I awaken my greater self. I’m Lynn Frazier from Los Angeles.

In the spring of 1992, the world’s eyes were on Los Angeles, as the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked massive social unrest and a national debate about police brutality, racial discrimination and economic disparity. In six days of intense rioting, more than 60 people were killed and 2,300 injured in Los Angeles, with

NEW SERIES! Installment 1: Vow

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Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series—Installment 84

Illustration by Leo Matsuda.

To my treasured friends of Los Angeles, the city of my dreams. A brilliant, burning sunrises above the newborn land,aiming toward a new century,raising the curtain on a new stageof humanity’s history.Shedding its light equally on all things,it seeks the sky’s distant midpoint. In this land wrappedin the limitless lightof the morning sun,my splendid American

Nichiren Daishonin writes, “The wish-granting jewel …, though only a single jewel, can shower all kinds of treasures upon the wisher” (“The Recitation of the ‘Expedient Means’ and ‘Life Span’ Chapters,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 69). Just like the wish-granting jewel, each of our Soka Gakkai districts—the front line in our

“And you demons, by making this man suffer, are you trying to swallow a sword point first, or embrace a raging fire, or become the archenemy of the Buddhas of the ten directions in the three existences? How terrible this will be for you! Should you not cure this man’s illness immediately, act rather as

Following a traumatic accident, I learn that victory lies within. I’m Brian Lindgren from Charlottesville, Virginia.

Highlighting SGI-USA members from the Southwest applying Buddhism to daily life.

In the mid-15th century, Cape Bojador remained the southernmost point that Portuguese explorers were willing to voyage. What lay beyond the cape was the province of superstition: boiling waters, sea monsters, the end of the earth. Such were the tales that seafarers coined the waters the Sea of Darkness, the point of no return. Prince

Chingiz Aitmatov and Daisaku Ikeda

Excerpts From Ikeda Sensei’s Annual Peace Proposals: World Citizen Education