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This guidance is from section 25.7 of “The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace” series, published in the November 2017 Living Buddhism, pp. 61–62. At the leaders meeting, the young men’s division leader asked Shin’ichi Yamamoto:“With the beginning of the second chapter of kosen-rufu, the Soka Gakkai will initiate a multifaceted movement that reaches out

This installment, published in the February 20, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, focuses on passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that Ikeda Sensei discussed in volume 5 of The New Human Revolution. Passage 1ASSAGE 1 “If Nichiren’s compassion is truly great and encompassing, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will spread for ten thousand years and more, for all eternity.”

The following is the fifth in a five-part series describing the events surrounding April 24, 1979, when Daisaku Ikeda stepped down as third Soka Gakkai president to protect the members from the perverse machinations of the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood, which sought to seize control of the lay organization. This incident came to be known as

A: Let’s start with the second part of the question, regarding the vow for kosen-rufu. As SGI members, we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for the happiness of ourselves and others, participate in and support SGI activities, and strive to share this Buddhism with our friends. Such efforts are themselves expressions of our vow for kosen-rufu. This vow

The Mentor-Disciple Relationship and the Journey of Kosen-rufu

Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace—The Flowering of a New Humanism

Deepti Kedare Jain Emeryville, California Living Buddhism: Thank you, Deepti, for sharing your experience with us. How did you encounter Nichiren Buddhism? Deepti Kedare Jain: I moved to Southern California from India in 2008 to pursue a master’s degree in occupational therapy. Living apart from my family in a new country proved to be difficult.

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the April 2019 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. “Let’s fight our hardest, with courage and joy!”—this was the dauntless spirit with which my mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, faced the most formidable challenges. No matter how

For Our Wonderful New Members—Part 1 [40]

“It was from my beloved Kanagawa that I launched my first battle after becoming the Soka Gakkai’s honorary president, holding aloft the flag of truth and justice all alone.” —SGI President Ikeda Following the May 3, 1979, headquarters general meeting, SGI President Ikeda and his wife, Kaneko, went directly to the Kanagawa Culture Center, which

How I created a new beginning for my life based on the practice of theoneness of mentor and disciple. by Mark McOmber Salt Lake City In 1996, SGI President Ikeda came to Denver. I had the fortune of supporting his security movement and, later, attending the general meeting as a participant. At the conclusion of

by Betsy EppsteinerFlorida Zone Vice Women’s Leader On behalf of SGI-USA Caribbean Region, I am overjoyed to report the victory of the members in Emerald Isles Chapter! On a recent visit to the eastern Caribbean island nations of St. Lucia and Barbados, I had an opportunity to meet the members and attend district activities together with

“Home Visit Week” Established

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,

From the March 5, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. As the season changes from winter to spring and unpredictable weather continues, I am praying earnestly each day for the health and absolute safety of our “uncrowned heroes” who deliver the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, the Seikyo Shimbun. Nichiren Daishonin

Youth hold a Buddhist seminar at UCLA to mark SGI President Ikeda’s historic lecture 45 years ago.

Eighteen Soka University of America students spent their spring break repairing roofs and building minor household infrastructure in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The students had raised their own funds for travel and underwent construction work training beforehand. SUA student Moses Addai explained one of the reasons he took part in the Alternative Spring Break program, held

This year, SGI members worldwide are earnestly studying SGI President Ikeda’s The New Human Revolution. To that end, the World Tribune has begun reprinting essays from “Thoughts on The New Human Revolution.” This installment was adapted from the Jan. 12, 1998, Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. President Ikeda appears in the novel under

Nichiren Buddhism encourages a dynamic balance of faith, practice and study. Nichiren Daishonin writes: “Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith” (“The True Aspect of

Nichiren Daishonin declares: “‘Joy’ means that oneself and others together experience joy … Both oneself and others together will take joy in their possession of wisdom and compassion” (The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, p. 146). Both ourselves and others matter. Caring only about one’s own happiness is selfish. Claiming to care only about