A harmonious family, happiness and success, good health and long life, the confidence to tackle all obstacles and victory in all endeavours are universal human desires. The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai are your means for achieving * The family and home are the building blocks of a prosperous society and by basing our practice on Faith for a Harmonious Family, we can achieve harmony and happiness in the family and thereby society. *The basic aim of Nichiren Buddhism is for every individual to achieve lasting happiness and Faith for Achieving Happiness tells us how. *Faith for Overcoming Obstacles shows us how to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth by treating adversity as mission * Faith for Health and Long By dedicating our lives to the welfare of others, following a sensible and healthy lifestyle and fighting illness with resolve and faith, we can overcome all heath challenges *Practising with the same determination as our mentor is the key to Faith for Absolute Victory. By making kosen-rufu the ultimate purpose of all our prayers and actions, we can tap the limitless wisdom, courage and strength that are inherent in our lives, making the impossible possible
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Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder, educator, author and poet. He is the third president of the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist organization and the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which is today one of the world's largest and most diverse lay Buddhist organizations, promoting a philosophy of character development and social engagement for peace. Ikeda is the founder of the Soka (value-creation) schools, a nondenominational school system based on an ideal of fostering each student's unique creative potential and cultivating an ethic of peace, social contribution and global consciousness. The school system runs from kindergarten through graduate study and includes a university in Tokyo, Japan, and another in California, U.S.A. Ikeda is a staunch proponent of dialogue as the foundation of peace. Since the 1970s he has pursued dialogue with a wide range of individuals around the world in political, cultural, educational and academic fields. Over 50 of these have been published in book form, with people such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Elise Boulding, Joseph Rotblat and André Malraux. In furtherance of his vision of fostering dialogue and solidarity for peace, Ikeda has founded a number of independent, nonprofit research institutes that develop cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaboration on diverse issues: the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and the Institute of Oriental Philosophy. The Min-On Concert Association and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum promote mutual understanding and friendship between different national cultures through the arts. Ikeda is a prolific writer who has published more than 100 works, ranging from Buddhist philosophy to biographical essays, poetry, children's stories and photographic collections.
