Ikeda Sensei composed the following poems to commemorate Aug. 24, the 75th anniversary of the start of his Buddhist practice. They were translated from the Aug. 24, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun.
On my 75th anniversary
of embracing faith,
I dedicate to my mentor
the honor of making the Mystic Law
resound throughout the world.
A great tree of justice stands
unbowed by the storm,
anchored in the garden
of our grassroots
discussion meetings.
Having vowed from the remote past
to enact the principle of
“emerging from the earth,” [1]
may you chant and share the Mystic Law
with one person and then another!
References
- “The True Aspect of All Phenomena,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 385. ↩︎
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