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This encouragement from Ikeda Sensei was originally published in the July 2018 Living Buddhism, pp. 4–5.  We, the members of the Soka family, are the sowers of seeds. We sow the seeds of the Mystic Law, the supreme seeds of happiness and peace, spreading them far and wide.  Nichiren Daishonin, the Buddha of the Latter

These are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the 88th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting, which was held at the Chubu Culture Center in Nagoya, on May 17, 1995. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the most recent Soka Gakkai headquarters leaders meeting, on April 16, 2022. This was translated from the April

Ikeda Sensei sent this message to the Ninth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial—commemorating May 3, Soka Gakkai Day and Soka Gakkai Mother’s Day—at the Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on April 16, 2022. This message was originally published in the April 17, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo

Originally published in the April 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. In “The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs,” the fifth chapter of the Lotus Sutra, we find the beautiful expression “human flowers” (The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Sutras, p. 142). I recall my conversation with South Africa’s great humanitarian leader

The following essay was translated from the March 29, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun.  As the anniversary of the death of our mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda,  approaches [on April 2], I hear his voice in my mind—words spoken during an interview for a Tohoku Broadcasting radio program

The following essay was translated from the Feb. 21, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. For part 1, see the March 18, 2022, World Tribune, pp. 2–3. The energy of the February Campaign also inspired the development of our organization in Kansai, which grew into a great people’s movement heralding the

We of the Soka Gakkai will forever walk the great path of basing ourselves on the Gosho, the writings of Nichiren Daishonin. Nichiren Daishonin, the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law, left these timeless, precious texts for humanity. Reading them, we will faithfully uphold and work to fulfill “the great vow for kosen-rufu

Originally published in the March 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. As human beings, we cannot be more than human beings, nor do we need to be. Nichiren Daishonin opened the way for all human beings, just as they are, to shine their brightest, with supreme nobility, dignity and humanity. Praising Sage Nichimyo,

Ikeda Sensei sent the following message to the Eighth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial at the Soka Gakkai Kanagawa Ikeda Auditorium in Yokohama, Japan, on March 6, 2022. This message was originally published in the March 7, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. It was here in Kanagawa,

The following essay was translated from the Feb. 21, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. This has been a particularly harsh and snowy winter in Japan. Nichiren Daishonin writes, “I feel the eight cold hells in my life now” (“Aspiration for the Buddha Land,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1,

The following are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the 20th SGI General Meeting, held jointly with the 21st Century Hyogo Hope General Meeting, at the Hyogo Ikeda Culture Center in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 1995, nine months after the devastating Kobe earthquake of Jan. 17. They were translated from the Feb. 16,

Ikeda Sensei sent the following message to the Seventh Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial on Feb. 6, 2022, held in conjunction with the Hyogo General Meeting, at the Hyogo Ikeda Culture Center in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in the Kansai region. Soka Gakkai members throughout Hyogo Prefecture also attended the meeting remotely at

This essay was written by Ikeda Sensei as part of his series “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin and the Mentor-Disciple Relationship.” It was originally published in the Feb. 5, 2009, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun, and in the June 19, 2009, World Tribune. In the light of the Buddha’s prophecy, “the

Originally published in the February 2022 Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. I am reminded of a passage from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings that my mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, and I spoke about as we walked along the street one chilly winter night, gazing up at the luminous full moon: The moon

The Light of the Century of Humanity

The following is the 2022 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Korean. 

These are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the 13th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting, held in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2002. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the Sixth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial on Jan. 8, 2022, marking the start of the Year of Youth and Dynamic Progress.

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2022 Message to the Women and Young Women from SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda

「青年、飛躍年」躍動的2月，我懷著感謝和敬愛，向全世界尊貴的寶友致賀詞。 多虧各位的題目，外子和我都精神抖擻，為全世界地涌年輕人的卓越成長和活躍而欣喜，早晚強盛祈求所有創價家族的健康、無事安穩、幸福和樂，贏得洋溢希望的勝利。 在新春的本部幹部會上，阿根廷SGI女子部長分享與家人的精彩體驗，以及阿根廷同志出色成長的報告，深深感動了許多人。 聽說當天阿根廷青年部為了順利成功而祈求，希望通達會場所在的日本，即便有時差的關係，配合會中播放影片的時間，眾人一起送題目，讓我非常感動。 回想起戶田城聖先生對我們男女青年部談到「地球民族主義」的構想，就是在1952年2月，那場2月大折伏運動期間。 歷經七十年，如今幸福與和平的聯盟光輝燦爛，結合全球，相信戶田先生一定很高興。 戶田先生和牧口常三郎先生都在自己的《御書》上劃線以示重視的一段金言，外子也經常和同志一起拜讀。 就是本佛日蓮大聖人寫給女門人的《法華初心成佛抄》裡的聖訓：「良師、好施主、賢法，三者合在一起的話，祈求就能如願，國家的大難也才能避免。」（御書文白並列本Ⅲ136頁） 我年幼時和父母一起加入創價學會，已過八十年。能值遇妙法，和世界各地異體同心的同志一心一意走在廣宣流布的師弟之道，心中感激不盡。 創價學會永遠的五指針之一是「超越難的信心」，外子在講解這項指針時強調的戶田先生的指導是： 「大聖人的佛法，能讓處於逆境的人變得幸福。遭遇越大苦難的人，在超越時越會產生驚人的力量。這樣他才能真正成為不幸的人的支持者。」 雖然新冠疫情尚未平息，創價同志在世界各地，更加齊心協力，彼此加油打氣，貫徹「超越難的信心」，堅持貢獻社區、社會。 外子表示，在這次努力將全人類的考驗變毒為藥的挑戰中，櫻梅桃李的人華繼承立正安國和令法久住的誓願，一定會在二十一世紀的大地更加繽紛盛開。 「青年、飛躍年」讓我不禁想起1960年，外子三十二歲就任第三任會長的那年，正是憑藉青年之力，和青年一起達成向世界廣布飛躍的一年。 外子在那年年初的日記裡寫著： 「從昨天起，決定每天多唱一千遍的題目，新的發心──為了朝下一個階段飛躍成長。」 新的飛躍來自新的發心。 我們創價婦女師弟不二的清新祈求勝過一切。 讓我們每個月、每天，就像「唱念南無妙法蓮華經之母親」（御書文白並列本Ⅲ295頁），溫暖友人的生命，孕育年輕的羽翼，彼此決意一起達成廣布與人生的飛躍成長。 請無比尊貴的各位多保重。 SGI名譽婦女部長 池田香峯子 For the English version, please see the February 11, 2022 World Tribune, or visit the link here.