March 2022 Living Buddhism

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

How I awoke to my deeper identity as a Bodhisattva of the Earth. I’m Shota Okajima from Madison, New Jersey.

“My wish is that all my disciples make a great vow. We are very fortunate to be alive after the widespread epidemics that occurred last year and the year before. But now with the impending Mongol invasion it appears that few will survive. In the end, no one can escape death. The sufferings at that

Featuring members from Texas.

This year marks the 64th anniversary of March 16, 1958, when second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda passed the baton of achieving kosen-rufu to the youth. At his inauguration as Soka Gakkai president on May 3, 1951, Mr. Toda vowed to take the organization’s membership from 3,000 to 750,000 households. Many assumed that he meant

Hinduism, Buddhism and the Rise of Global Civil Society—Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner and Daisaku Ikeda

Chapter 12 “The Three Kinds of Treasure”—Part 3 of 3 In the closing section of “The Three Kinds of Treasure,” Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes that vital to winning in life is accumulating treasures of the heart, which we can gain by respecting others and striving in our Buddhist faith and practice. The heart is our unsurpassed

March 2022

March 2022

Excerpts From Ikeda Sensei’s Annual Peace Proposals:
Creating a Sustainable Planet for Future Generations

Ikeda Sensei’s Lecture Series [74]

Illustrations by Leo Matsuda.