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The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was translated from the November 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge.  Through their selfless struggles to spread the Mystic Law, the Soka Gakkai’s three founding presidents paved the way forward, demonstrating that obstacles are a springboard to enlightenment. As Nichiren Daishonin writes,

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the October 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Ikeda Sensei embarked on the first of his overseas travels for kosen-rufu on Oct. 2, 1960. About a month earlier, he had visited the hometown of his mentor, second Soka Gakkai

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the September 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Today’s Soka Gakkai was founded on two pillars. The first is the selfless dedication of the first three presidents to propagate Nichiren Buddhism, and the second is the philosophy of profound

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the July 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. On this day of releaseand of imprisonmentare to be found the bondsof mentor and disciple. Ikeda Sensei penned this poem in tribute to the solemn history of mentor and disciple that

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the June 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Nurturing our future division members is a most sacred endeavor that will shape the next generation. This month marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the high school division, on

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the May 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. May 3 is both Soka Gakkai Day and Soka Gakkai Mothers Day honoring all the women of Soka, who are worthy of the utmost praise. On May 3, 1972, during a

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the April 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Seventy years ago, in the month of April, standing at the site of Aoba Castle in Sendai, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda declared: “The Soka Gakkai must build its castle

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the March 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. On March 1, 1954, the young Daisaku Ikeda wrote in his diary: “Spring has arrived at long last. The gentle breezes, the budding greenery, the mist—all seem to be drawing in

by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada Around the world, our fellow members are brimming with enthusiasm to share Nichiren Buddhism with their friends. Of course, the origins of this enthusiastic spirit can be found in the historic February Campaign led by a youthful Daisaku Ikeda. This was the 1952 campaign in which he initiated a

by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada Every New Year brings to mind a memory I have of Ikeda Sensei. Thirty years ago [in 1994], he attended New Year’s gongyo sessions at the Soka Gakkai Headquarters in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, on January 1, and at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall in Hachioji on the 2nd. Not only