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The following is the 2022 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Korean. 

Happy New Year! My best wishes to you in the coming year. There was a subject second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda often spoke about as if passing on a solemn legacy to his successors. That subject was courage. He once gave this clear-cut guidance: The essence of Buddhism is compassion. We, too, need to

The following is the 2022 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Japanese.

The following is the 2022 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in simplified Chinese.

The following is the 2022 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in traditional Chinese. 

Febrero de 2022

2022 Message to the Women and Young Women from SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda

6th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting

In my conversations with leading thinkers in Japan and around the world, they often say how impressed they are by our members, some calling them precious treasures of humanity and remarking how struck they are by the genuine care and concern evident in their interactions and their compassion for human beings and all life. “The

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series—Installment 73

Building a Bright Future Based on Our Vow—Exploring the Lives of Nichiren Daishonin’s Disciples

Guidance for Soka Women

Guidance for All Soka Women

Each December, there is a poem of my mentor’s that I recall with boundless gratitude: Winning and losingare bothpart of life,but I pray to the Buddhafor final victory. Second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda presented me with this poem in December 1957. After overcoming numerous daunting hurdles, he had finally seen the attainment of his

Ikeda Sensei’s 2022 New Year’s Message

Faith is the deepest, noblest and most powerful conviction—unshakable, inviolable and unyielding. The starting point of his great struggle to spread the Mystic Law, Nichiren Daishonin says, was his “resolve to withstand the harshest trials” (see “Letter to Misawa,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 895). Inheriting this spirit and forging ahead bravely

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series—Installment 72: “Letter from Sado” Part 2—Walk the Path of Champions, Undefeated by Adversity!

Our Journey of Mentor and Disciple Shining With Hope and Victory

Ludwig van Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony, known for its choral section “Ode to Joy,” in 1824, at the age of 53, just three years before his death. It is the last complete symphony he composed. The Ninth Symphony is famous for including a choral section, unlike any other symphony at the time. Beethoven created

After second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda’s passing on April 2, 1958, Ikeda Sensei (then Soka Gakkai chief of staff) not only grappled with the loss of his beloved mentor but also deeply considered how to carry on his mentor’s work of advancing kosen-rufu. He recalled Mr. Toda saying: “The Gakkai should advance a major