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Excerpts From Ikeda Sensei’s Annual Peace Proposals:
Abolishing the Evil of Nuclear Weapons

September 2022

September 2022

Study Material Overview for the Ikeda Wisdom Academy’s Fifth Class

Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda

Pioneering Buddhism in Alabama, we have striven to lay a foundation of faith for our family and the future. We are Kathy and Steve Jaekle from Huntsville, Alabama.

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

“Because I have expounded this teaching, I have been exiled and almost killed. As the saying goes, ‘Good advice grates on the ear.’ But still I am not discouraged. The Lotus Sutra is like the seed, the Buddha like the sower, and the people like the field.” (“The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood,” The Writings of Nichiren

Having a real passion for something can be a source of joy or a curse. Not much can match the gratification and exhilaration we feel after working hard on something we are truly passionate about. And not much compares to the agony we feel watching our manuscript, soccer cleats or synthesizer gather dust in the

Originally published in the August 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. In the letter Nichiren Daishonin wrote to the lay nun Myoichi containing his famous words “Winter always turns to spring” (“Winter Always Turns to Spring,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 536), he expresses his appreciation for her sincere support

August 2022

Illustration by Leo Matsuda

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series [79]

Excerpts From Ikeda Sensei’s Annual Peace Proposals:
Abolishing the Evil of Nuclear Weapons

August 2022

Chapter 9 “The Kalpa of Decrease” Ikeda Sensei explains in this lecture that Nichiren Buddhism has the power to help people transform great evil into great good. “The Kalpa of Decrease,” the writing we will study in this chapter, affirms that putting into practice the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism constitutes the “fundamental path to happiness

Your Values, Beliefs and Actions Can Shape A Sustainable World Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda

The lion’s roar (shishi ku) is the preaching of the Buddha. The preaching of the Law means the preaching of the Lotus Sutra, or the preaching of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in particular. The first shi [which means “teacher”] of the word shishi, or “lion,” is the Wonderful Law that is passed on by the teacher. The second

Lecture on “The Quintessence of Thought and Philosophy”‘ On August 31, 1962, just over two years since becoming Soka Gakkai president, Ikeda Sensei began a five-year series of lectures to student division members on The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, a text he referred to as “the quintessence of thought and philosophy” (The New