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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 an SGI representatives conference in Miami, Florida, February 5, 1993. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 258–62.  The day of a new

The Renaissance was Europe’s youthful period. It embodied all the splendor and sadness of youth. And the center of this Renaissance was Florence—city of youth. … I visited Michelangelo Square in May 1994. It was the day after I had arrived in Italy, the country of light, from Germany, the land of Goethe, and had

Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Yamaguchi Campaign

The following is from a speech at a Soka Gakkai headquarters leaders meeting in Tokyo on July 3, 1999. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 31, installment 1, pp. 411–13. “Buddhism is universal; it belongs to all people,” Ikeda Sensei says. “Promoting peace, culture

The following is from a speech at a youth division general meeting in Tokyo on July 14, 1991. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 31, installment 2, pp. 414–16. The enormous treasure tower described in “The Emergence of the Treasure Tower” chapter of the

The following essay, from the series “Our Brilliant Path to Victory,” was published in Japanese in the Seikyo Shimbun, Aug. 21 and 22, 2012. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 30, installment 1, pp. 375–80. Fostering the future divisionmembers is vital for the ongoing

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 SGI Representatives Conference in Miami, Florida, February 3, 1993. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 251–57.  I am sure that the

May is a golden season in Britain, where winter is long. March and April are not yet fully spring. It is May when days grow long and warm. The English expression “March winds and April showers bring May flowers” well describes this transition. … May is a month of youth; it is a time for

The following is from a speech at the Soka Renaissance Victory Leaders Meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 1991. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 29, installment 2, pp. 349–52. From the mid-1970s, the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood—jealous of the success of the Soka Gakkai

The following is from a speech at an SGI world youth training course in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 1990. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 29, installment 6, pp. 363–65. As practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism, Ikeda Sensei says, it’s important that we use our

The following is from a speech at the Soka Renaissance Victory Leaders Meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 1991. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 29, installment 2, pp. 347–52. From the mid-1970s, the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood—jealous of the success of the Soka Gakkai

The following is from a speech at an executive conference for SGI in Germany, held in Frankfurt am Main on May 24, 1994. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 29, installment 1, pp. 343–46. Ikeda Sensei has opened uncharted paths for worldwide kosen-rufu based

The following is from a speech at a Tokyo general meeting on Aug. 24, 1989. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 28, installment 2, pp. 244–46. Noting that founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi began practicing Nichiren Buddhism at a relatively advanced age, Ikeda

In the following, Ikeda Sensei discusses the lofty mentor-disciple spirit shared by the first three Soka Gakkai presidents. It is from Discussions on Youth, published in Japanese in March 1999 and can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 28, installment 1, pp. 241–44. Ikeda Sensei has

Ikeda Sensei gave this guidance from Watakushi no ningengaku (On historical personalities and society), published in Japanese in August 1988. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 27, installment 2, pp. 211–13. Ikeda Sensei explains through an easy-to-grasp example that the mentor-disciple relationship is not

The following is from an interview of Ikeda Sensei commemorating the publication of the Bulgarian edition of Utsukushiki shishi no tamashii (The beauty of a lion’s heart), published in Japanese in the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun, on Aug. 10, 2000. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part

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 SGI-USA Representatives Conference in Miami, Florida, February 2, 1993. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp. 246–50.  One of the Buddha’s titles

In the constant flux of human history, power is an illusion. So are gold, fame and even blood ties. Only through the legacy of mentor and disciple is an eternal history born, leaving the names of ordinary people to shine for 10,000 generations and more. My mentor loved castles. Therefore, he named himself Jogai, which

Ikeda Sensei gave the following speech at a meeting in Santa Monica, California, Sept. 18, 1993. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 26, installment 2, pp. 179–81. Ikeda Sensei notes that a defining feature of Soka Gakkai leaders is their noble spirit to value

Ikeda Sensei gave the following speech at an SGI general meeting, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 23, 1996. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, chapter 26, installment 1, pp. 175–78. The purpose of the Soka Gakkai and kosen-rufu is to enable everyone to lead lives