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This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the November 2019 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. There is an unforgettable passage from the writings of Nichiren Daishonin that I studied together with my mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda. It is from a letter addressed

To mark the sixth anniversary, we are reprinting the message SGI President Ikeda sent to the commemorative gongyo meeting held on Nov. 8, 2013, for the completion of the Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu, in Shinanomachi, Tokyo. This message first appeared in the Nov. 9, 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka

This essay by SGI President Ikeda originally appeared in the Oct. 3 issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. On the morning of Sept. 28, under bright blue skies, I visited the newly completed Soka Gakkai World Seikyo Center in Shinanomachi, Tokyo. In the center’s Genron Hall, I did gongyo and chanted

Translated from the October 21, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai daily newspaper. We are all linked together by the Mystic Law, the ultimate Law of the universe. Nichiren Daishonin writes: “There is no place among the worlds of the ten directions that the sound of our voices chanting daimoku [Nam-myoho-renge-kyo] cannot

Nanjo Tokimitsu

Nanjo Tokimitsu

SGI President Ikeda sent the following message to the 43rd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting of the New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu, held in conjunction with the Okinawa General Meeting, at the Okinawa Training Center in Onnason, on Oct. 6, 2019. At the meeting, it was also announced that the SGI theme for 2020 will

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the October 2019 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. On October 2, 1960, I was en route to Hawaii for my first overseas trip. Placing my hand on the breast pocket of my jacket, in which I had tucked

The following are excerpts from SGI President Ikeda’s speech at a Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting held in April 1993. These excerpts were featured in a video of the speech, which was shown during the 42nd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting of the New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu, held in Yokohama, Japan, on Aug. 31,

The following is an essay from SGI President Ikeda’s new series “Our Brilliant Human Revolution,” which originally appeared in the Aug. 23, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. Part one was printed in the Sept. 13, 2019, World Tribune. Aug. 17 marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the

SGI President Ikeda sent the following message to the 42nd Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting of the New Era of Worldwide Kosen-rufu, held on Aug. 31, 2019, in conjunction with the Nationwide Men’s Division Leaders Meeting, at the Soka Gakkai Kanagawa Ikeda Auditorium in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. The meeting was also attended by

From the Aug. 14, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. Nichiren Daishonin states: “All my disciples and followers should read and listen to this letter. Those who are serious in their resolve should discuss it with one another” (“The Votary of the Lotus Sutra,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol.

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the September 2019 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. In one of his letters, Nichiren Daishonin praises a female disciple named Onichi-nyo, who was making sincere efforts to support kosen-rufu in spite of her modest circumstances. He explains to

From the July 13, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, the founding Soka Gakkai president, declared that Soka mentors and disciples are practitioners of the Lotus Sutra, not believers. The fact that the three obstacles and four devils arise, he said, is proof that we are correctly carrying

The following is an essay from SGI President Ikeda’s new series “Our Brilliant Human Revolution,” which originally appeared in the Aug. 23, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. My mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, solemnly urged me on many occasions to engrave certain passages from Nichiren Daishonin’s writings

This is a new photo essay series Treasures of the Four Seasons by SGI President Ikeda. This text originally appeared in the April 1, 2018, issue of Boys and Girls Hope News, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly newspaper for the elementary school division. Our planet Earth is a beautiful, living art museum. In all places and

Nanjo Tokimitsu

This monthly encouragement by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda was originally published in the August 2019 issue of the Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal. Seventy-two years have passed since that hot summer day when I started my practice of Nichiren Buddhism and began my ascent of the mountain of kosen-rufu, after meeting my mentor,

From the June 11, 2019, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. It is now the rainy season in Japan. I am endlessly grateful for all the hard work of our “uncrowned heroes,” the deliverers of the Seikyo Shimbun [the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper]. My wife, Kaneko, and I are praying earnestly

SGI members worldwide are earnestly studying SGI President Ikeda’s novel The New Human Revolution to eternalize the mentor’s teachings and transmit them to future generations. To that end, the World Tribune has begun reprinting President Ikeda’s essays from “Thoughts on The New Human Revolution.” This essay was originally published in the April 15, 1998, issue