"Today, once again we are commemorating the Soka Gakkai Founding day, which is celebrated every year on Nov 18. November is our founding month. On 18 Nov 1930, our first and second Presidents Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, established the Soka Gakkai in Tokyo.
Our founding month is a month of creating new history. It is a month in which courageous, self-reliant champions of justice rise into action. Our founding month is not simply a time for reflecting on the past. It is not a page in some dusty old chronicle. Kosen-rufu is a process of endless creativity and forward movement that does not permit even a moment's cessation or stagnation.Our founding month lives on forever in the present, because our victory at each moment, right now contributes to founding an ever-victorious gakkai that will endure for the next 50, next 100 years.
This November, please write an unprecedented page of history in your lives. Please make it a month of rebirth, of breaking out of your shell – a month in which you crash through your self-imposed limitations and bravely set forth with a stand- alone spirit."
Daisaku Ikeda
(Excerpts taken from Kosen-rufu: Our Mission (Eternal Ganges Press, 2015), Vol 2, 55-60
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