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[Video] Kansai: The Vow of Direct Disciples of Sensei. The Ever-Victorious Kansai: The Indestructible Record of Shared Vow of Mentor and Disciple Part 1

Kansai Soka Gakkai was built by Ikeda Sensei with his own hands. Sensei had ever mentioned: “I would like to state that it’s here in Kansai that my entire spirit continues.”

In this Kansai series, we will introduce how the Kansai direct disciples of Ikeda Sensei answer to the mentor’s expectation.

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[Video] A Tribute to his Final Years

Since May 2010, Sensei stepped back from attending meetings. Photo montage of Sensei and Mrs Ikeda from 2010 till present.

As common mortal, no one can escape the universal sufferings of life, old age, illness and death. Having fulfilled his great life mission for kosen-rufu, Sensei, this towering leader of the kosen-rufu movement who lived a life of unprecendented achievement, passed on on 15 November 2023 at the age of ninety-five.

It is now for the direct disciples of Ikeda Sensei to vow to fulfill the great vow of kosen-rufu!

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[Video] Youth, Scale the Mountain of Kosen-rufu​

This poem is imbued with the mentor’s prayer for his disciples to bring forth their immense inner strength to win in all situations and his expectation as he entrusts the future of kosen-rufu to the youth…​

[Article] Ikeda Humanism​

[Article] Ikeda Humanism​

Inheriting Makiguchi and Toda Sensei’s legacy, Ikeda Sensei has taken the further step of stressing the “dignity and sanctity of life” as the spiritual value toward which all humanity should aspire and share.

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[Article] Win Victory After Victory!​

[Article] Win Victory After Victory!​

I’ve fostered you into capable people. Now I leave things up to you. The time has come for you to take responsibility, decide what to do, and see it through on your own​

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[Article] Everything Depends on the Youth​

[Article] Everything Depends on the Youth​

“My wish is that all my disciples make a great vow… Since death is the same in [any] case, you should be willing to offer your life for the Lotus Sutra. Think of this offering as a drop of dew rejoining the ocean, or a speck of dust returning to the earth.”​

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[Video] Orlando Cepedas Honours His Mentor at Award Ceremonies​

To Orlando Cepedas, from San Francisco Giant who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, his life would not be what it is today without the existence of a mentor. He repays this debt of gratitude by honouring his mentor in his speech in front of the national television audience in US.​

[Article] Inheriting the Spirit of Our 3 Eternal Mentors​

[Article] Inheriting the Spirit of Our 3 Eternal Mentors​

Ikeda Sensei believes that viewing mementos and other objects related to Makiguchi and Toda Sensei was an indispensable means for encouraging Gakkai members to study and inherit the spirit and struggle of the first and second presidents.

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[Article] The Buddha Seeks Genuine Disciples!​

[Article] The Buddha Seeks Genuine Disciples!​

Those who only expect to be protected by the mentor still have quite a ways to go before they can call themselves real disciples. It is by striving in the same manner as the mentor to protect our fellow human beings that we qualify as true disciples, true lions.​

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[Article] Rise Up as Lions, Advance as Lions, and Triumph as Lions!

[Article] Rise Up as Lions, Advance as Lions, and Triumph as Lions!

The curtain on a grand new stage of human revolution has risen. I am waiting for true-hearted disciples who blaze with the same invincible fighting spirit for kosen-rufu that I do. I have faith in their efforts and their successes.

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[NEWS] The Vow of Direct Ikeda Sensei’s Disciple – Kansai Soka Gakkai Women’s Leader, Mitsuyo Naori

[NEWS] The Vow of Direct Ikeda Sensei’s Disciple – Kansai Soka Gakkai Women’s Leader, Mitsuyo Naori

Now, we would like to make a vow to eternalize the Ever-Victorious spirit of mentor and disciple under the clear sky of ‘Ever Victorious Kansai’.

We would like to open up the future of ever victorious, by embracing in our heart the eternal lion’s roar Sensei had shown and left behind in Kansai: “Those who strive tenaciously in faith will definitely emerge victorious!”

~ Kansai Soka Gakkai Women’s Leader Naori

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[Article] Distinguish Between Believers and Practitioners​

[Article] Distinguish Between Believers and Practitioners​

A person of minor good who lives only for himself definitely will not be attacked by devils. In contrast, when we lead the life of major good of dedication to the bodhisattva practice, devils will arise without fail.

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[NEWS] The Vow of Direct Ikeda Sensei’s Disciple – Kansai Soka Gakkai Leader Yamauchi

[NEWS] The Vow of Direct Ikeda Sensei’s Disciple – Kansai Soka Gakkai Leader Yamauchi

Kansai Soka Gakkai was built by Ikeda Sensei with his own hands. Kansai members had been struggling against and triumphing over all persecutions determinedly with Sensei. Sensei had ever mentioned, “I would like to state that it’s here in Kansai that my entire spirit continues.”

Sensei entrusted Kansai members with the guiding principle ‘Ever-Victorious Kansai’! Now is the time for each and every one of us to make Ikeda sensei’s heart as our own and shine brilliantly in the unity of ‘One Kansai’.

~ Kansai Soka Gakkai Leader Yamauchi

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[Video] “I Arise” by SGI-USA Arts Division​

“Nothing is more powerful than the great vow to achieve kosen-rufu. Let’s go out into society, go out among the people! Bring people hope so that they can break through!…”

[Article] My Wish Is That All My Disciples Make a Great Vow!​

[Article] My Wish Is That All My Disciples Make a Great Vow!​

The great vow of Buddhism can only be actualised through the persistent challenge of going out into society and earnestly seeking to do whatever we can to inspire and encourage each person we encounter, leaving no stone unturned, so to speak.​

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[Article] Buddhism Is About Winning

[Article] Buddhism Is About Winning

Faith is a never-ending battle against deadlock. It is a struggle between the Buddha and devilish functions — between negative and positive forces. That is why we say, ‘Buddhism is about winning.

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[Article] Half-hearted Desire Doesn’t Amount to a Vow!​

[Article] Half-hearted Desire Doesn’t Amount to a Vow!​

“All other troubles are no more to me than dust before the wind.” True peace and security exist in a strong self. It is when we forge such a self by making a great vow that the path to genuine peace and security in this life opens up before us​.

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[Article] Are We Just Going Through the Motions?​

[Article] Are We Just Going Through the Motions?​

Of crucial importance is our fundamental attitude, what we are thinking about in our innermost hearts. Are we really determined to fight for the cause of our mentor, for the cause of the Gakkai?

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[Article] Persecutions are of the Highest Honour!​

[Article] Persecutions are of the Highest Honour!​

If persecutions greater than those that arose during the Buddha’s lifetime keep occurring again and again to someone who is not guilty of the slightest fault, then one should realise that that person is a true votary of the Lotus Sutra in the age after the Buddha’s passing​.

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[Article] Life Means Suffering​

[Article] Life Means Suffering​

Practising Buddhism is all about grappling with problems. Struggling with problems and solving them is what faith is all about.

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[NEWS] Soka Gakkai Memorial Service – Remarks by President Harada

[NEWS] Soka Gakkai Memorial Service – Remarks by President Harada

“Now it is up to us, the disciples of Ikeda Sensei, to become indomitable champions of truth and to show society and the world Sensei’s true greatness through our own victories.”

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[Article] One in Heart with the Mentor​

[Article] One in Heart with the Mentor​

Because my heart is one with my mentor, I fear nothing. I therefore fought on alone, undeterred. I fought through to the end. And I have triumphed. ​

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[Article] Don’t Forget the Lessons of History​

[Article] Don’t Forget the Lessons of History​

But during those tempestuous periods, there were some top Gakkai leaders who not only refused to fight for what is right but actually joined forces with those who were plotting my downfall.

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Our eternal mentor, Daisaku Ikeda,  a peacebuilder, Buddhist philosopher, educator, author and poet, passed away on 15 November 2023 at the age of 95.

This site is to honour this great man who change the course of mankind. We will be reporting live on any activities while recapping the great life of Daisaku Ikeda, his achievement and legacy.

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