Sunday, March 31, 2024

Persisting in the challenge of building peace through dialogue | The Japan Times

Persisting in the challenge of building peace through dialogue | The Japan Times

Persisting in the challenge of building peace through dialogue

Daisaku Ikeda meets with Nelson Mandela in Tokyo in October 1990, shortly after Mandela's release from prison. | SEIKYO SHIMBUN
Daisaku Ikeda meets with Nelson Mandela in Tokyo in October 1990, shortly after Mandela's release from prison. | SEIKYO SHIMBUN

Daisaku Ikeda devoted his life to promoting peace through dialogue. He published dialogues with over 70 international figures and issued peace proposals on Jan. 26 every year between 1983 and 2022 to mark the founding of Soka Gakkai International. Soka Gakkai is a global community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education, and SGI is an international association of Soka Gakkai and a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council.


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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Kosenrufu …Excerpts from Creative Life 03/2024, pg.39-40


广宣流布是佛意佛敕,也是我们的大愿。但若认为早晚应该会有人去做、 与自己无关,广宣流布是不会有进展 的。*即使踏出一小步、一厘米也好,在自己决定要一人奋起的那一刻,广布的车轴便开始转动。*

于创价学会作为世界宗教大展双翼、创立百年(2030年)近在咫尺的今天,此原则依然不变。

*回想起在第二次世界大战后的日本荒野,独自许下广宣流布誓愿、一人立起开始从事救度人类这场慈悲正义大法战的,就是恩师户田城圣先生。*

先生于70年前(1952年)的新年出发之际疾呼:"广宣流布的时机将到!"  *鼓励各位同志要成为"勇敢的折伏斗士"、"广宣流布的人"!*

摘自:《创价人生》3/2024,第39页


Kosen-rufu is the Buddha's intent and our great vow. But if we think someone else will accomplish it someday, nothing will ever hapen. *The wheels of kosen-rufu start to turn only when we decide to stand up ourselves and move forward, even if only an inch or a step.*

This is just as true today, as the Soka Gakkai continues to spread its wings as a global religious movement in the run-up to our centennial [in 2030]

*It was my mentor, Josei Toda. who, amid the devastation of postwar Japan, stood up alone with a vow to achieve kosen-rufu and began his compassionate, righteous struggle to relieve the suffering of all people.*

Seventy years ago, as he looked towards the new year of 1952, Mr Toda declared that the time of kosen-rufu had come. *He called upon the members to strive as "courageous champions of propagation" and "people dedicated to kosen-rufu".*

Excerpts from Creative Life 03/2024, pg.39-40

Thursday, March 7, 2024

理事长的吊唁

亲爱的林雋强先生。

 得知您的母亲谢秀英女士逝世的消息,深为痛惜。

失去至亲的悲痛谁也无法衡量。

可是, 因为受持妙法,您的至亲所享有的福运和功德将永远 装饰和辉耀他的生命。

这是佛的教导。也是我的坚定确信。

日莲大圣人教示:"崇奉自己内心的妙法莲华经为本尊,自己内心中的佛性受到南无妙法莲华经呼唤显出的当体,称呼它为佛。"

又教示:"口中唱出妙法,我们身中的佛性听到呼唤也一定会显现出来。

梵王、帝释的佛性听到呼唤,就会守护我们。"

我谨此庄重而诚恳地祈愿您的至亲成佛。

新加坡创价学会理事长
吴锦华