CategoryEncouragement

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series

Monthly Message

On Oct. 2, 1960, I set out into the world on a journey for peace. Carrying a photograph of my mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, inside the breast pocket of my jacket, I traveled to nine cities in the United States, Canada and Brazil. It was a journey of dialogue, of spreading hope

All the beings of the Ten Worlds … can attain Buddhahood in their present form. [This is an incomparably greater wonder than] fire being produced by a stone taken from the bottom of a river, or a lantern lighting up a place that has been dark for a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years.

Our Journey of Mentor and Disciple Shining With Hope and Victory

The following essay by Ikeda Sensei was originally published in the Feb. 25, 2021.

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series

Monthly Message

2nd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting

Part 2 of 2

The following op-ed by Ikeda Sensei was published in The Times of India on Feb. 4, which marked the 60th anniversary of his first visit to India. The text can also be accessed at daisakuikeda.org. Our world today is facing a crisis unlike any other as the coronavirus pandemic shakes the foundations of our global

From the Jan. 9 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, the Seikyo Shimbun. The Buddha says, “After I have passed into extinction, in the last five-hundred-year period you must spread it [the Lotus Sutra] abroad widely throughout Jambudvipa [the entire world]” [The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Sutras, p. 330]. So we

Ikeda Sensei sent the following message to the First Youth Division Leaders Meeting.

2021 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda A Magnificent Palace of Happiness Exists Within The following is the 2021 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Korean. For the English version, please see the February 12, 2021 World Tribune,

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series

Monthly Message

Part 2 of 2

A Poem by Ikeda Sensei

First Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting

2021 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda A Magnificent Palace of Happiness Exists Within The following is the 2021 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Japanese. For the English version, please see the February 12, 2021 World Tribune,