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The World Tribune is publishing Ikeda Sensei’s encouragement every month for the SGI-USA women’s division’s America Victory Daimoku Group and Sophia Group meetings. The following excerpt is from Reaching Beyond—Improvisations on Jazz, Buddhism, and a Joyful Life, pp. 189–190. I am certain that many people have felt this gratitude to someone for their help and

by Naoko Leslie SGI-USA Women’s Leader Happy February 27, SGI-USA Women’s Division Day! In this exciting Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide, as SGI-USA, we are focusing on our discussion meetings where we can joyfully gather and encourage one another as fellow members and friends! We will especially focus our efforts on

‘Write an Unparalleled Story That Will Endure Into the Future’ The following is the 2023 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in simplified Chinese. For the English version, please see the February 3, 2023 World Tribune, or visit the link here. 我怀着敬爱和感谢，和全世界的创价妇女说几句话。 在各位同志真心的题目守护下，1月2日，外子精神矍铄地迎来九十五岁的生日。他表示，从年初开始非洲等世界各地就有新的地涌之友诞生，牧口常三郎先生、户田城圣先生也会为此感到欣慰。 两位先生是在1928年开始信奉日莲大圣人佛法。那年出生的外子，九十五岁的今年也就是两位先生入信的九十五周年。他依然秉持不二的精神，“每个月、每天，都必须更增强信心”（御书文白并列本Ⅲ259页），勇猛精进。 1月11日，外子发表了紧急声明，呼吁世人纠集改变历史、重建和平的创造力。 世界的宝友在重重危机当中，彼此关怀勉励，加深对和平的祈求，在各自使命的国土，凝聚讲求生命尊严、带来希望的力量，外子尤以为傲。 大圣人赞叹池上兄弟和夫人们团结面对纷然竞起的障魔，是“作为流传到未来的佳话”（御书文白并列本Ⅱ118页）。 尤其称许夫人们“追随龙女的足迹，是末代恶世女人成佛的模范”（御书文白并列本Ⅱ122页），不但坚持信心，还悉心照顾强烈反对信仰的公公，达成一家和乐。

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by Naoko Leslie  SGI-USA Women’s Leader Just a month after his inauguration as the second Soka Gakkai president, Josei Toda established the women’s division to initiate the kosen-rufu movement. Seventy-three years have passed since then (June 10, 1951). Carrying on his mentor’s determination to rid misery from the face of this planet, Ikeda Sensei continued

WESTON, Fla.—Never mind the forecasted thunderstorm: The Women’s Division #1 Conference participants brought the sun to SGI-USA’s Florida Nature and Culture Center in what turned out to be a weekend of beautiful Florida weather. Over 170 women ages 34 to 45 gathered from June 2 to 5 for the conference themed “Each District, One Precious Youth!” 

Message de Mme Kaneko Ikeda pour les départements des femmes et des jeunes femmes Janvier 2023

2023 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda (Korean)

2023 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda in Spanish.

2023 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda (Japanese)

On Feb. 27, 1990, women from across the country joined Ikeda Sensei and Kaneko Ikeda, SGI honorary women’s leader, for the First SGI-USA Women’s Division Meeting, held at the former Soka University of America campus in Calabasas, California. At the meeting, Sensei delivered his timeless guidance “Buddhism Is the Clear Mirror That Reflects Our Lives”

2023 Message to the Women and Young Women From SGI Honorary Women’s Leader Kaneko Ikeda

In 1990, when Ikeda Sensei established a study program for SGI-USA women’s division members, he named it the Sophia Group—Sophia in Greek meaning “skill, intelligence, wisdom.” Since that time, women have gathered monthly in small-group settings to study and discuss Sensei’s guidance to grasp the history of the SGI, deepen their understanding of the shared

On June 10, 1951, just a month after being inaugurated as second Soka Gakkai president, Josei Toda gathered some 50 women’s leaders at a French restaurant in Shinjuku, Tokyo. They faced tremendous suffering in the wake of Japan’s defeat in World War II. Yet the women strove to spread Nichiren Buddhism widely to help others

On June 10, 2022, to commemorate the women’s division’s 71st anniversary, the SGI-USA women will conduct a gongyo and daimoku relay from their homes any time between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. in their local time zones. Collectively, they will pray for the following: 1) the peace of the land and the world; 2) to

Every year on Feb. 27, the women of America celebrate SGI-USA Women’s Day by renewing their vow to become happy and help others do the same. On this day in 1990, representative women from across the country joined Ikeda Sensei and Kaneko Ikeda for the First SGI-USA Women’s Division Meeting, held at the former Soka

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

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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.