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This installment, published in the May 20, 2020, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that Ikeda Sensei discusses in volume 19 of The New Human Revolution. Passage 1 “Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the

“By joyfully chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and sharing Buddhism with others, we connect our lives with that of the Buddha, function as the Buddha’s emissaries and live as Bodhisattvas of the Earth. In other words, through this practice of faith for the sake of self and others alike, the power of the Buddha wells up within us

The Mentor-Disciple Relationship and the Journey of Kosen-rufu

A: Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the primary practice of Nichiren Buddhism. It activates the power inherent in ourselves and all phenomena. Gongyo is the secondary practice, which consists of reciting portions of the Lotus Sutra’s “Expedient Means” and “Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapters, coupled with chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Doing gongyo is our declaration to

The following is Ikeda Sensei’s study essay from “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin and the Mentor-Disciple Relationship” series, which was originally published in the Dec. 11, 2008, Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, as well as the April 17, 2009, World Tribune. “From [the] single element of mind spring all the various lands and

The following is adapted from a work of findings by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, on skills and strategies that support positive dialogue, relationships and understanding among groups or individuals across political, racial, religious and other distinctions. The study was based on decades of research, interviews with dozens of

by SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda

Chapter Summary On September 8, 1973, The Human Revolution film, based on Shin’ichi Yamamoto’s novel, opened at the Yurakuza Theater in Tokyo and later nationwide. The film, acted and produced by noted individuals in the film industry, played to record audiences. The project took shape in response to a request by a well-known producer who

Chapter Summary “Shin’ichi Yamamoto knew that he needed genuine disciples. He was therefore determined to foster capable successors overflowing with the Soka Gakkai spirit” (The New Human Revolution, vol. 18, p. 86). It was with this resolve that he attended the 1973 Soka Gakkai summer training session and poured his life into encouraging the 100,000

Chapter Summary On November 10, 1973, Shin’ichi Yamamoto began visiting members in the Shikoku region of Japan. Leading up to this visit, members in Ehime Prefecture engaged in an all-out effort to increase guest subscriptions to the Seikyo Shimbun to promote understanding of the Soka Gakkai in their communities. At the Matsuyama Community Center, Shin’ichi

Chapter Summary At the New Year’s gongyo meeting in 1974, Shin’ichi Yamamoto shared these words from Nichiren Daishonin: “When great evil occurs, great good follows” (“Great Evil and Great Good,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 1119). With the conviction to turn turmoil and upheaval into hope, Soka Gakkai members commenced the Year

The Ikeda Wisdom Academy is an SGI-USA youth division movement to engage youth leaders in advanced study. This month, academy members will study chapter 13 of The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life: SGI President Ikeda’s Lecture Series. While the Ikeda Wisdom Academy is a youth leaders study program, all SGI-USA members are invited

Deeply committed to the education and development of children and youth, SGI President Ikeda, as the third Soka Gakkai president, established the high school division in June 1964, the junior high school division in January 1965, and the boys and girls division in September 1965—which together comprise the future division. The present generation of future

Toward a Century of Health: The Wisdom for Leading a Long Life of Good Fortune and Benefit—Part 2 [54]

Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace—The Purpose of Buddhist Study

This installment, published in the April 15, 2020, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that Ikeda Sensei discusses in volume 18 of The New Human Revolution. Passage 1 “At the seaside, wood is regarded as a treasure, and in the mountains, salt. In a drought, water is thought of

This monthly encouragement by Ikeda Sensei was originally published in the June 2020 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. June is the birth month of founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. In a wonderful coincidence, he was born in 1871 in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, exactly 600 years after Nichiren Daishonin was

The Bodhisattvas of the Earth have emerged! They have arisen! They have started to stir, to move! Here, on the American continent, the winds of a new era have begun to blow. Raising ruby goblets, we toast the further completion of this wondrous new path glittering with happiness and peace. Lifting our voices high in

It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself to muster the power of faith. Regard your survival as wondrous. Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. “All others