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This excerpt is from part 4 of Ikeda Sensei’s lecture “To My Friends of Each Division Engaged in Our Shared Struggle.” It was originally published in the March 2020 Living Buddhism, p. 58.  The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) deplored how in modern times people had lost their way in life: On the

In this excerpt from volume 6 of The New Human Revolution, Ikeda Sensei writes about an editorial he penned for the April 1962 issue of the Daibyakurenge, titled “To the Student Division,” in which he offers guidelines to the student division members. Sensei appears in the novel as Shin’ichi Yamamoto.  Revealing his high hopes for

In a new era for the student division, it has become a stand-alone division that will include youth between the ages of 18–25 enrolled in college, university or other forms of post secondary education. Youth 18 and older not in college will remain in their respective young men’s and young women’s divisions. While the student