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New SGI youth members reflect on the support they received as they embraced Buddhist practice.

On the courage to transform poison into medicine.

Learning from my mother’s example, I use my faith to become the author of my own life story. I’m Alexandria Jones from San Diego.

This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an excerpt of his speech given at the Boston Community Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, September 27, 1991. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 137–51. You Can See Eagle Peak

Gongyo—which includes reciting portions of the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapters of the Lotus Sutra morning and evening—is part of daily practice for Nichiren Buddhists. This series carries Ikeda Sensei’s explanations of gongyo, section by section. The full text can be found in The Heart of the Lotus Sutra,

Kosen-rufu is a struggle to spread the Lotus Sutra so that all people in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law can attain enlightenment. Obstacles and devilish forces of every imaginable kind are sure to assail the votaries of the Lotus Sutra who take up this challenge. In particular, the three powerful

There is a pond that each spring turns into a flowered mirror. Cherry blossoms scatter petal by petal, wafting gently onto the water’s surface like delicately scented silk scarves. To the koi carp in the pond, the fluttering petals must look like clouds billowing across the sky. Such musings made me think the pink petals

The following excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s lecture to the student division members can be found in the March 2020 Living Buddhism, pp. 51–59. The Soka Gakkai student division was established at a time when our organization was being viciously attacked by the authorities.  On June 30, 1957, with second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda in

Ikeda Wisdom Academy members: • are group through national youth leaders and all student division members.• should have their own copy of The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4. • are encouraged to read the assigned material before each meeting. June Syllabus:The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4, pp. 91–118• Part Two: “The

Please base your monthly discussion meeting study on one of the following: 1) Buddhist Concepts (pp. 44–45) 2) Writings for Discussion Meetings (pp. 46–47) 3) Material from any recent issue of the World Tribune or Living Buddhism Buddhist Concepts The Parable of the Jewel in the Robe People often stumble through life, doubting and devaluing

From the voices of our junior high and high school members, envoys of the future.

A discussion with youth about the key to introducing young people to Buddhism.

Taking the hands of old friends, I discover new ones wherever I go. I am Philippe Crettien, from Bellingham, Mass.

This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an excerpt of his speech given at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 26, 1991. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 126–36. In the past, the driving force of

Gongyo—which includes reciting portions of the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapters of the Lotus Sutra morning and evening—is part of daily practice for Nichiren Buddhists. This series carries Ikeda Sensei’s explanations of gongyo, section by section. The full text can be found in The Heart of the Lotus Sutra,

The widespread propagation of the Mystic Law in the Latter Day—this is the great vow expressed in the Lotus Sutra, representing not only the individual wish of Shakyamuni but the shared aspiration of Many Treasures Thus Come One and all Buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the ten directions and three existences. In the three pronouncements of

The day was June 17, 1992, the time, past 3 o’clock in the afternoon. We were 8 miles from Cairo, a city of 10 million. Driving through the city along the west bank of the Nile, one suddenly finds oneself in the desert. Ahead, atop a plateau, stand the three pyramids of Giza. It was

This is a translation of an installment of a Soka Gakkai Study Department series, published in the May 2024 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal.  Installment 24: Shijo Kingo and the Ikegami Brothers On behalf of his loyal disciple Shijo Kingo who was experiencing great hardship following the Kuwagayatsu Debate in

In this excerpt from The New Human Revolution, vol. 28, Shin’ichiYamamoto, Ikeda Sensei’s character in the novel, speaks to student division members at a meeting commemorating the student division’s 21st anniversary. Congratulating the student division on its 21st anniversary, Shin’ichi Yamamoto began his speech recalling how his father, who had run a seaweed processing business,

Ikeda Wisdom Academy members: • are group through national youth leaders and all student division members.• should have their own copy of The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4. • are encouraged to read the assigned material before each meeting. May Syllabus: The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4, pp. 55–87 • Part