Courage, Prayer and Unity—the Starting Point
Chapter through territory leaders of the New York Tri-state area gather to reaffirm the essential spirit of faith as they prepare to spring into 2025.
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The following are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the 12th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting, held at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall in Hachioji, Tokyo, on June 16, 1997. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the recent Fourth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial, on Sept. 7, 2024. The excerpts
In search of justice, I discover an old promise unbroken.
SGI Youth Leader Mitsuo Nishikata gave the following words at the Tri-state leaders meeting held on Sept. 16, 2024, at the SGI-USA New York Culture Center. by Mitsuo NishikataSGI Youth Leader Congratulations on holding this meeting for the leaders of Ever-Victorious New York! I feel such appreciation to visit the U.S. with SGI Vice President
SGI Vice President Yoshiki Tanigawa gave the following address at the Tri-state leaders meeting held on Sept. 16, 2024, at the New York Culture Center, New York. by Yoshiki TanigawaSGI Vice President Thank you for gathering despite this being a weeknight! I understand that representative leaders are here from North Zone, especially from Connecticut and
In this scene from The Human Revolution, Josei Toda speaks at the first memorial service for founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, reflecting on his mentor’s towering spirit and his own determination to carry out kosen-rufu on his behalf. “The Bodhisattvas of the Earth exist nowhere but here; we are, in fact, the Bodhisattvas of
The following is a summary of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s speech at the Fourth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on Sept. 7, 2024. It was translated from the Sept. 14, 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. Congratulations on
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This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an abridgement of his speech given at the First SGI-USA Executive Conference, held at Soka University Los Angeles, Calabasas, California, February 21, 1990. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth edition, pp.
Chronicling Ikeda Sensei’s visit to Chicago in October 1980.
Priming myself to appreciate even hardship, I become a person of true wealth. I’m Everett Boyd from New York.
Installment 19: The Mongol Invasion
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Interview
Toward the Active Duty and Military Veterans / First Responders Conference at the SGI-USA Florida Nature and Culture Center (FNCC), the World Tribune sat down with the group’s national leaders, Carla Colton and Mark Woods, to learn about their mission. The group includes veterans, active duty military, national guard or reserve, Department of Defense personnel,
Interview
The World Tribune spoke with two nuclear physicists who are also SGI-USA members, Samuel Kim, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Shelley Boon, of Berkeley, California, on how Buddhism impacts their work. World Tribune: Thank you for speaking with us. Could you share a bit about your background? Samuel Kim: I’m currently a post-doctoral nuclear
Interview
Toward the culture department conference at the Florida Nature and Culture Center (FNCC), the World Tribune sat down with Paige Asawa and Bora Colak, the SGI-USA Culture Department leaders, to learn about the group’s mission. World Tribune: Thank you for meeting with us. For our readers who may be unfamiliar with the SGI-USA Culture Department,
Ikeda Sensei
In this essay, Ikeda Sensei writes of the power source of victory—gongyo. It was translated from the Feb. 10, 2006, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. Some members from Chiba sent me a photo of this year’s [2006] first sunrise over the Pacific Ocean. My wife, Kaneko, and I often admire this
Experience
While I grieved my mother, the district
I vowed to revive revives me.
Guidance for Leadership
SGI Vice President Yoshiki Tanigawa gave the following address at the Central Executive Committee and Executive Council Conference held on Sept. 14, 2024, at the New York Culture Center, New York. by Yoshiki TanigawaSGI Vice President Hello everyone. First, I’d like to relay that Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada and Mrs. Kaneko Ikeda asked that
Frontline News
The SGI-USA will mark one year since Ikeda Sensei’s passing by bringing together 50,000 members and friends at our November district general meetings.