Youth should forge themselves amid struggle! No self-development comes from shunning challenges” –these were Premier Zhou’s sentiments which Ikeda Sensei shared.​

“Youth should forge themselves amid struggle! No self-development comes from shunning challenges” – these were Premier Zhou’s sentiments. Mr Toda also said: “Wage a struggle! Forge yourself in its midst!”​

That is why I have fought, struggled, and challenged myself wholeheartedly. Sometimes I was so exhausted when I got home after a busy round of Gakkai activities, that I didn’t have the energy left to even take off my shoes. At the time, I also suffered from lung trouble. . . .​

Premier Zhou stated to the effect that only through receiving training and undergoing various rigorous challenges are people refined into the hardest tempered steel.​

Life is a battle. Unless one has an unbreakable, steel-like spirit, one cannot accomplish momentous undertakings.