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My battles with illness taught me that chanting is the strongest medicine, because I am still here. I am Valerie Ewing, of Chicago.

On the Power to Persevere When Our Dreams Feel Out of Reach

by Naoko Leslie SGI-USA Women’s Leader Happy February 27, SGI-USA Women’s Division Day! In this exciting Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide, as SGI-USA, we are focusing on our discussion meetings where we can joyfully gather and encourage one another as fellow members and friends! We will especially focus our efforts on

The Heritage for Attaining Buddhahood Flows in the Lives of Disciples Who Strive Selflessly for Others’ Happiness in the Same Spirit as the Mentor

“As youth, you face all sorts of difficulties, and wrestle each day with worries and problems. Precisely for this reason, it is crucial that you stand up with a great vow and strive to achieve a fundamental goal. Once you decide what is fundamental, nothing that happens will sway you, and you can grow by

In this excerpt from volume 6 of The New Human Revolution, Ikeda Sensei writes about an editorial he penned for the April 1962 issue of the Daibyakurenge, titled “To the Student Division,” in which he offers guidelines to the student division members. Sensei appears in the novel as Shin’ichi Yamamoto.  Revealing his high hopes for

Installment 22: On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice

November 3, 1995. I had just received an honorary doctorate of letters from Nepal’s Tribhuvan University. After the ceremony, we headed away from the city to a hilltop from which I could get a good picture of the Himalayas. … Just as our car pulled up, a young girl, her back laden with rice straw,

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 section of Living Buddhism will carry Ikeda Sensei’s explanations of gongyo, section by section. The full text can be found in The Heart

This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an abridgement of his speech given at the Youth Training Session, held at Soka University Los Angeles, Calabasas, California, February 25, 1990. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 76–83.

How a prayer for peace was passed from one generation to the next. We are Robin and Robert Benvenuti from Detroit, Michigan.

When it comes to our most intractable relationships, the key to change is courage.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the SGI, Living Buddhism is reprinting this essay by Ikeda Sensei in which he writes about the SGI’s inaugural meeting in Guam on January 26, 1975, and the significant turning points that have marked the Soka Gakkai’s advancement every 25 years. This essay is part of

The Practice of the Buddha’s True Disciples to Awaken All People to the Power of the Mystic Law Inherent in Life

Please base your monthly discussion meeting on one of the following: 1) Writings for Discussion Meetings (pp. 40–41) 2) Buddhist Concepts (pp. 42–43) 3) Material from any recent issue of the World Tribune or Living Buddhism Writings for Discussion Meetings The Bodhisattvas of the Earth Bring the ‘Cluster of Blessings’ to Benefit All  Passage The

The sixth class of Ikeda Wisdom Academy returned to the material studied by its first class 10 years ago, The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vols. 1–3.  The Ikeda Wisdom Academy section of the November 2024–January 2025 issues of Living Buddhism include workbook questions to guide youth members in preparing for the exam, which will

In a new era for the student division, it has become a stand-alone division that will include youth between the ages of 18–25 enrolled in college, university or other forms of post secondary education. Youth 18 and older not in college will remain in their respective young men’s and young women’s divisions. While the student

Installment 21: On Repaying Debts of Gratitude

Ikeda Sensei’s serialized novel The New Human Revolution chronicles the history of the Soka Gakkai following his inauguration in 1960 as its third president. It carries practical guidance on how to expand our movement for kosen-rufu and hundreds of experiences of inner transformation. Sensei appears in the novel as Shin’ichi Yamamoto. The following takes place

A single road, stretching limitlessly. If we follow that single road, that single path, it will link us to the land. And beyond the broad expanse of the land, it will link us to the world as well. If we never stop walking ahead step by step along the correct path in life, then the