December 13, 2019, World Tribune - World Tribune

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Feature

2019 Year In Review

JANUARY 1 WORLD TRIBUNE The Year of Victory for Each SGI-USA Member! The SGI-USA announced several key objectives for 2019, the Year of Soka Victory—Toward Our 90th Anniversary: 1. Engage in an unprecedented number of home visits and personal guidance sessions. 2. Hold youth discussion meetings by chapter in July and gather 25,000 youth nationwide.

Experience

Human Revolution Means Revealing My True Self

How awakening to my mission as a Bodhisattva of the Earth helped me find meaning and protection in the most trying times. by Mac ShiomiKALAMAZOO, MICH. When I was 17, I came out for the first time. After sharing with my mother, she innocently laughed thinking it was a joke. Since I knew it was

Encouragement

Strive in Your Human Revolution and Show Actual Proof of Benefit!

On Nov. 18, SGI President Ikeda sent the following message to the 44th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting of the New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu and the SGI General Meeting, celebrating Soka Gakkai Foundation Day, at the Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo. Among those present were 280 SGI representatives from 65 countries and territories,

Brief Guidances

Striving With Ever-Greater Seeking Spirit

Strengthen your resolve to seek the way all the more and achieve Buddhahood in this lifetime. “The Receipt of New Fiefs” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 946 Many leaders are vibrantly appearing in accord with the principle of “[bodhisattvas] emerging from the earth” (“The True Aspect of All Phenomena,” WND-1, 385). When

Brief Guidances

Kosen-rufu Starts From One Person

Now, at the beginning of the Latter Day of the Law, I, Nichiren, am the first to embark on propagating, throughout Jambudvipa [the entire world], the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo, which are the heart of the Lotus Sutra and the eye of all Buddhas . . . My disciples, form your ranks and follow me,