
Category: Experience
A True Homecoming
Returning to New York in my youth, I find there, in the SGI, the means to reveal my mission. I’m Blane Charles from New York.
Category: Experience
Returning to New York in my youth, I find there, in the SGI, the means to reveal my mission. I’m Blane Charles from New York.
Category: Experience
Discovering a friend in a childhood rival, I grasp in the depths of my soul that people can change for the better.
Category: Experience
Living based on a vow, we transform the karma of our families and lay the foundations of a happy home.
Category: Experience
Through film and Buddhism, I build a bridge to my true self and cross it with my family.
Category: Experience
Handed the key to happiness, I was able to open educational and athletic opportunities for myself and hundreds of young athletes. I’m Karen Dennis from Columbus, Ohio.
Category: Experience
Practicing for self and others, I transform my family from the inside out.
Category: Experience
An encounter with my mentor awakens me to my mission to teach in New York.
Category: Experience
Trying for fatherhood and the Pennsylvania bar, a lesson is seared into the depths of my life.
Category: Experience
Over my 56 years of Buddhist practice, I’ve overcome family discord, troubles at work and illness, based on my vow to strive for kosen-rufu in America with my mentor, Ikeda Sensei. I’m Rod Burke from San Luis Obispo, California.
Category: Experience
I arrived in New York with a dream. The city forged my faith and showed me what I’m made of.
Category: Experience
Basing ourselves on a vow for the happiness of the people, my wife and I forge a bond transcending time and space, and even death.
Category: Experience
From The New Human Revolution, I learn that nothing is impossible.
Category: Experience
Gaining and losing all, I discover the foundations of a winning life. I’m Sherman Hom from Prescott, Arizona.
Category: Experience
Taking home the Soka Gakkai spirit, my kids show me the power of prayer.
Category: Experience
Finding Buddhism in my 60s, I awaken to my mission to demonstrate what’s possible in life’s golden years.
Category: Experience
In Buddhism, I discover a long-sought path to empowerment.
Category: Experience
From a state of confidence, endings appear as the means for fresh growth. I’m Sylvia Dare from Galloway, New Jersey.
Category: Experience
Chanting to see my mother’s humanity, I unlock my own.
Category: Experience
Returning to a forgotten lake, I find more than memories—love and a sense of mission.
Category: Experience
Praying for my daughter’s life, I grasp my mentor’s heart and vow to impart hope to youth.