May 2021 Living Buddhism

How I built a life with my husband, Robert, overflowing with good fortune. I’m Sumiko George, from Anniston, Alabama.

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series

Happiness

Fundamentals: Learning From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Ikeda Wisdom Academy—Advanced Study for SGI-USA Youth Division

Each year in the SGI, we welcome May 3, Soka Gakkai Day, in the same way that we celebrate New Year’s Day. For us, not only is May 3 a time to appreciate how our Buddhist practice has enhanced our lives, it is also a time to refresh our resolve to widely share Nichiren Buddhism

There’s almost an assumption that if you’re not with someone, you must be unhappy and wishing for a partner. Romantic comedies don’t help. They have us thinking that we’ll trip on a leaf, someone will catch us and boom—next week we’ll be married and living happily ever after. But is that really what brings us

“To enable every precious individual, without exception, to become happy—that is the spirit of Soka illuminating May 3.”[1]—Ikeda Sensei Seven decades ago, after triumphing over a series of harsh business challenges, Josei Toda was inaugurated as second Soka Gakkai President. At his inaugural meeting on May 3, 1951, he determined to completely renew the Soka

by SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda

Chapter Summary On September 30, 1977, Shin’ichi Yamamoto traveled to the recently completed Toda Memorial Park Cemetery, located in the hometown of his mentor, Josei Toda, in Atsuta Village (present-day Atsuta Ward, Ishikari City), Hokkaido. This was a way to pay eternal tribute to President Toda and build a “spiritual home for Soka mentors and

Chapter Summary The New Year’s Headquarters Leaders Meeting in the Soka Gakkai’s second Year of Study was held on January 6, 1978. The implementation of a new chapter system for the second phase of kosen-rufu was announced at this meeting. Existing greater blocks would become chapters. Like their predecessors in the pioneering days, they would

Chapter Summary On January 19, Shinichi Yamamoto traveled to the Shikoku Training Center in Kagawa Prefecture. It was nighttime when he stood in the garden overlooking the sea and gazed toward the site of the Battle of Yashima, which had taken place during the Genpei War (1180–85). He thought of Nichiren Daishonin’s treatise, “On Establishing

Chapter Summary On January 27, 1978, Shin’ichi Yamamoto visited Suginami Ward in Tokyo to attend the Honan Chapter inaugural meeting. This kicked off the nationwide inaugural chapter meetings that marked the start of the new chapter system. Shin’ichi observed that rather than being an outpost, like a regional office of a business, the chapter serves

This installment, published in the February 17, 2021, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that Ikeda Sensei discusses in volume 26 of The New Human Revolution. Passage 1 “Shakyamuni Buddha had all the thirty-two auspicious features, his body a golden color, his face like the full moon. And yet

Gandhi for Modern Times: Neelakanta Radhakrishnan and Daisaku Ikeda

Illustrations by Leo Matsuda

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