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Based on the success of the July 2019 Youth Discussion Meetings, the SGI-USA has implemented topic-driven small group dialogues for our four-divisional district discussion meetings. The discussion topic will be presented at the meeting, and the material will also be featured in the World Tribune. Every third issue of the World Tribune will include an

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the April 2020 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. Learning is light—this is a conviction we have inherited from founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, who continued to study in earnest even while in prison, where he ultimately died

This essay by SGI President Ikeda was originally published in the April 12, 2007, issue of The Japan Times, a leading English-language daily published in Japan. The text can also be accessed in Hope Is a Decision, pp. 139–42 and daisakuikeda.org » “resources” » “written works” » “essays” » “opinion editorials.” This year, the Doomsday

SGI Women’s Leader Yumiko Kasanuki on the mission of leaders to foster capable people. Aiming toward the 100th anniversary of the Soka Gakkai’s founding, I would like to make a vow together with all of you to grow together as leaders and as human beings. With this determination, SGI Women’s Leader Yumiko Kasanuki began the

“At first only Nichiren chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but then two, three, and a hundred followed, chanting and teaching others. Propagation will unfold this way in the future as well. Does this not signify ‘emerging from the earth’?” “The True Aspect of All Phenomena,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 385 Kosen-rufu—the spread and establishment

An essential teaching of the Lotus Sutra is that anyone at any time can become a Buddha. Buddhas are not deities who dwell in faraway places or special people who have dedicated a certain number of years to Buddhist practice. Rather, a Buddha is an ordinary individual who has awakened to the reality that they

In the spring of 1974, the Watergate scandal dominated the news, and the U.S. was still a year away from ending its involvement in the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, fresh in people’s minds were the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy six years earlier. It was in this milieu that,

Youth hold a Buddhist seminar at UCLA to mark SGI President Ikeda’s historic lecture 45 years ago. LOS ANGELES, April 1—Buddhism teaches the interconnectedness of all things—that when our inner heart changes, our environment also begins to shift. To be sure, it’s the most direct and lasting path to transforming our lives and society. Such

Founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi once said: “Do we make our lives dwellings of the Buddha, which lead us to happiness, or do we instead make them abodes of devilish functions, which lead us to unhappiness? We have to choose either one or the other. Actively driving devilish functions out and defeating them will

“As long as suffering and misery exist anywhere on our planet, we must continue to weave with rich color and bold creativity the magnificent tapestry of human victory that is kosen-rufu. That is why our mentor-disciple journey to realize the great vow for kosen-rufu will continue forever.” —SGI President Ikeda, from the afterword to The

WESTON, Fla.—One hundred and ninety-three youth representatives from the U.S., Canada and New Zealand confirmed the spirit and significance of studying SGI President Ikeda’s 30-volume lifetime work, The New Human Revolution, at the North America and Oceania Study Conference, led by SGI Vice Study Leader Nobuo Fukase. The conference, held Feb. 1–4 at the Florida

Aditya Negi Chicago Living Buddhism: Thank you, Aditya, for sharing your experience with us! Starting in January, members around the world embarked on a fresh journey to deeply study SGI President Ikeda’s serialized novel The New Human Revolution. Can you recall a passage that has encouraged you to break through your struggles? Aditya Negi: Yes, in

This guidance is from section 24.9 of “The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace” series, published in the September 2017 Living Buddhism, pp. 59–60. In August 53 years ago (in 1947), I became a disciple of second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda. Soon after joining the Soka Gakkai, I read Nichiren Daishonin’s writing “On Practicing

A new chapter of history has opened. The sun of Nichiren Buddhism has risen brightly in the skies of the 21st century, and the banner of Soka humanism waves in 192 countries and territories around the globe. Nichiren Daishonin writes: “Can there be any doubt that … [the Law] will be spread far and wide

by Maya Gunaseharan Laguna Hills, Calif. When my sister confronted me six years ago about how I wasn’t facing the turmoil that existed at home, I promised her that I would fight for the happiness of our family. In my heart, though, I didn’t know how it could be done. Our family environment was negative

Warm greetings to all of you attending this joyous New Year’s gongyo meeting, from which we will set out to triumphantly scale a new summit of worldwide kosen-rufu! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here today. I am chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo earnestly that each of you, my precious friends, and

There have always been songs that rouse hope in people’s hearts for the flourishing of culture and the emergence of the people. Shin’ichi wanted to compose a song of life that would inspire all members to build a new age of humanistic culture and humanism. SGI President Ikeda introduced the “Song of Human Revolution” at