July 2024 Living Buddhism

This section features Ikeda Sensei’s seminal guidance to the members of the United States. The following is an abridgement of his speech given at the SGI Joint Training Session, held at Soka University Los Angeles in Calabasas, California, on February 18, 1990. The full speech can be found in My Dear Friends in America, fourth

Ikeda Sensei: I would like to ask the men’s and women’s division members to support the members of the young men’s, young women’s and student divisions, so that they can carry out their activities freely and joyfully. No matter how the organization seems to be developing now, if youth aren’t being fostered … we cannot

It is not certain that, because one is ill, one will die. And could not this illness of your husband’s be the Buddha’s design, because the Vimalakirti and Nirvana sutras both teach that sick people will surely attain Buddhahood? Illness gives rise to the resolve to attain the way.  —“The Good Medicine for All Ills,”

As I work to safeguard the dignity of human life, I awaken to the dignity of my own. I’m Garrett Welch from Denver.

Young people’s take on why they engage in the important practice of Buddhist dialogue.

On June 13, 1996, Ikeda Sensei spoke at Columbia University, the “premier institute for graduate study in education in the United States,” outlining the shared qualities of bodhisattvas and global citizens and how humanistic education is the key to fostering such people. Founding Soka Gakkai Presidents Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda never set foot outside

Installment 16: The Sado Exile—Part 4

Members:• should be district through national youth leaders. • have their own copy of The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 3. • read the assigned material prior to each meeting. Syllabus:The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 3, pp. 127–64 Part Three: “Encouraging Devotion” Chapter• A Disciple Battles the Three Powerful Enemies Supplementary Materials:• The Lotus Sutra and

July 2024

Installment 10 | Installment 20 | Installment 30 | Installment 40 | Installment 50 | Installment 60 Installment 1 History moves. Times change. The determination and actions of human beings make this happen. On August 12, 1978, the Japan-China peace and friendship treaty was signed, setting in motion a new age of Japan-China relations. At

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