February 2023 Living Buddhism - World Tribune

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Ikeda Sensei

Buddhism is the Clear Mirror That Reflects Our Lives

Ikeda Sensei gave the following address on February 27, 1990, at the First SGI-USA Women’s Division Meeting, held at the former Soka University Los Angeles campus in Calabasas, California. In the speech, Sensei presented timeless principles for upholding correct faith in Nichiren Buddhism, becoming absolutely happy and developing a healthy and happy SGI community. This

Ikeda Sensei

Painting a Vision for Brilliant Victory in Our Communities

Originally published in the January 2023 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. At the time when his businesses were in dire straits, my mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, and I read “On the Buddha’s Prophecy” together. Amid the life-threatening challenges of exile on Sado Island, Nichiren Daishonin proclaimed in that letter his

Gosho Study

Practicing ‘Like Nichiren’

“Usually these sufferings appear one at a time, on into the boundless future, but Nichiren has denounced the enemies of the Lotus Sutra so severely that all eight have descended at once. This is like the case of a peasant heavily in debt to the steward of his village and to other authorities. As long

On the Cover

SGI-USA New York Culture Center

Over a century after 7 East 15th Street first opened in 1887, the SGI-USA restored the building, earning the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 1995. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, and originally containing 27 class-rooms, a library and an auditorium, this five-story building first served as a branch of the Young Women’s Christian

Experience

The Mind Of Faith

Repeatedly challenging my self-doubt, I embark on a mission to spread Buddhism through American Sign Language. I’m Phyllis Sapp from Minneapolis.

Our History

Nichiren Daishonin—His Lifelong Vow and Great Compassion

Installment 2: Seeking Spirit

Global Perspective

Dawn After Dark

René Huyghe and Daisaku Ikeda

Frontline News

Launching the Sixth Class

The Ikeda Wisdom Academy, SGI-USA’s study program for district through national youth leaders, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with the start of its sixth class in March. On January 26, 2013, the study program, named by Ikeda Sensei, was launched at a historic study conference. In his message to that conference, Sensei encouraged the youth

District Meeting

District Study Meeting Material

District Meeting

District Discussion Meeting Material

The New Human Revolution

Songs of Kosen-rufu—Volume 28, Chapter 1

Installment 10 | Installment 20 | Installment 30 | Installment 40 | Installment 50 | Installment 60 Installment 1 “A song of victory resounds in my heart. / The power of spring rises in my soul,” wrote the Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913). Shin’ichi Yamamoto’s heart resounded with a song of youth astride noble steeds

Ikeda Sensei’s Lectures

Strengthening Our Grassroots Network of Bodhisattvas of the Earth for the Peace and Security of Humanity

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Comic

Take One Step Forward

Illustration by Leo Matsuda.