November 2022 Living Buddhism - World Tribune

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Daily Life

On Fostering Successors

To do anything that would … deprive [young people] of their vigor is equivalent to casting one’s treasures into the sea. —Ikeda Sensei In October 1990, Nelson Mandela traveled to Japan the same year he was released from prison. He had been paying close attention to Daisaku Ikeda, whose works he had read in confinement.

Ikeda Sensei

Now Is the Time to Fulfill the True Purpose of the Buddhism of the People

Originally published in the October 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. Eight hundred years have passed since the birth of Nichiren Daishonin, who described himself as “the son of a commoner” and “the son of commoner parents.” The time has come for Nichiren Daishonin’s sunlike Buddhism of the people to dispel the darkness

Gosho Study

The Gohonzon Exists to Enable Us to Become Happy

“Showing profound compassion for those unable to comprehend the gem of the doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life, the Buddha wrapped it within the five characters [of Myoho-renge-kyo], with which he then adorned the necks of the ignorant people of the latter age.” (“The Object of Devotion for Observing the

Profiles

On the Cover—New York

Highlighting SGI-USA members from New York applying Buddhism to daily life.

Experience

Something to Say

Reawakened to a childhood calling, I return to school to discover new ways to bring forth the strength and wisdom residing in all people. I’m Stephanie Wilson from Altadena, California.

Ikeda Sensei

The Eternal Triumph of Mentor & Disciple

Ikeda Sensei’s poem commemorates November 18, Soka Gakkai Founding Day. It was originally published in the February 2, 2001, World Tribune, pp. 4–5. The morning sun!O the morning sun shining in the eastern sky! The light illuminatingthe great stageof the 21st centurybeckons usto stride out exuberantlyinto the new age ahead of us. His gaze on

Global Perspective

Fostering ‘Human Flowers’

Nelson Mandela and Daisaku Ikeda

District Meeting

District Study Meeting Material

District Meeting

District Discussion Meeting Material

Ikeda Sensei’s Lectures

Engage in Dialogue With the Unshakable Conviction That All People Embody the Mystic Law!

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series [82]

Comic

Developing Our Wisdom for a Humane World

Illustration by Leo Matsuda.

Global Perspective

The Wisdom of Buddhist Humanism—World Citizen Education

Excerpts From Ikeda Sensei’s Annual Peace Proposals: World Citizen Education

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