Podcasts about Soka Gakkai

Rosa Matteucci"Cartagloria"Adelphi Edizioniwww.adelphi.itTorna Rosa Matteucci, «impietosa, feroce cantatrice del “nonostante”», come la definì una volta Carlo Fruttero, accostandola ai mani di Céline, Beckett e Thomas Bernhard. Questo nuovo romanzo, in bilico, come gli altri, sull'illusorio crinale fra comico e tragico, inizia con l'affannosa, tormentosa aspirazione di lei bambina a ricevere, come tutte le sue antenate e le sue simili, la Prima Comunione, per proseguire con la morte di un padre molto amato – sebbene molto scapestrato – e la sua sciamannata sepoltura. Nella scrittura, straziata e al tempo stesso grottesca, di Rosa Matteucci diventa comico perfino il viaggio, non solo interiore, che tale morte susciterà, alla ricerca di quell'antico Trascendente che il nostro tempo sembra aver smarrito: dall'India dei santoni ai Pirenei di Bernadette, dai gruppi di preghiera della Soka Gakkai a un'ardimentosa visita a un frate esorcista che, asserragliato in un eremo, vende messalini con audiorosario incorporato. Un vagabondaggio che culmina con la scoperta del rito tridentino, dove imparerà il protocollo delle genuflessioni, sempre rincorrendo una salvazione che pare rimessa in forse a ogni frase, a ogni respiro. Sino alla definitiva consapevolezza che è necessario accettare, e forse anche amare, la propria croce.Rosa MatteucciIl suo romanzo d'esordio è Lourdes (1998), vincitore nel 1999 del Premio Bagutta nella sezione Opera Prima, e del Premio Grinzane Cavour nella sezione Giovane Autore Esordiente.Nel 2003 pubblica con Adelphi il romanzo Libera la Karenina che è in te, finalista al Premio Viareggio. Nel 2007 esce Cuore di mamma, vincitore del Premio Grinzane Cavour nella sezione Narrativa Italiana. Nel 2008 pubblica per Rizzoli India per signorine, un romanzo sull'esperienza indiana della scrittrice.Ha recitato nei film Mi piace lavorare (Mobbing) (2004), diretto da Francesca Comencini, e La tigre e la neve (2005), diretto da Roberto Benigni.Tra gli altri titoli, Costellazione familiare (Adelphi, 2016), Cartagloria (Adelphi, 2025).«Impietosa, feroce cantatrice del “nonostante”», l'ha definita Carlo Fruttero, accostandola a Céline, Beckett e Thomas Bernhard.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Bentornati su "FRAGRANZE" un podcast che racconta storie di vita quotidiana di chi, grazie al Buddismo, è riuscito a trasformare la propria vita e a farla fiorire. Cosa significa trovare il coraggio per affrontare le difficoltà più profonde? Come trasformare una crisi personale o familiare in un'opportunità di crescita?In questa puntata raccontiamo la storia di Manuela, una donna che, grazie alla pratica buddista della Soka Gakkai, ha trovato la forza di trasformare una relazione complessa con sua figlia e superare sfide professionali e personali.Dalla sofferenza al cambiamento, scopriamo come i principi del Buddismo possono guidarci verso la consapevolezza, l'amore e la resilienza.“Ogni sofferenza può diventare un tesoro quando ci sforziamo di trasformarla.” Buon ascolto e... fate sentire la vostra fragranza!

In this episode, we are joined by Robert Harrap, dedicated practitioner and leader within the Soka Gakkai tradition, to explore the timeless teachings of the Lotus Sutra. Together, we delve into the story of Bodhisattva "Never Disparaging"(also known as Fukyo), who represents unconditional respect and the dignity of all life, offering us insights for how to navigate modern time challenges. Robert shares his reflections on the transformative power of determination, and the deeper meaning behind the meaning of kosen-rufu—spreading the Buddha's wisdom widely as a foundation for true world peace. He also recounts his story of recovery from a motorbike accident, where Buddhist principles and practice served as a source of strength and guidance. This conversation invites you to contemplate Buddha nature and dignity within yourself and others and what Engaged Buddhism can mean.

On the latest episode of the Discover Your SecondAct Podcast, we got a special guest with us, Mr. Vishesh Gupta. He is the Chairperson of Bharat Soka Gakkai. The esteemed organization is dedicated to spreading the teachings of Buddhist humanism throughout India, with a mission to foster peace, enlightenment, and a life of dignity for all. In our insightful conversation, Vishesh shares his journey from a high-powered corporate career to leading a faith-based organization. We delved into the history of BSG, wisdom of Buddha, the growing interest of today's youth in spirituality, and his SecondAct. Need to start your own podcast? SecondAct Studio is the right place for you. For inquiries, DM us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secondactbyarchhana/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3Qz9LmS Website: https://thesecondact.in/ Follow our Host – Archana Dutta Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_archanadutta/ LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/archana-dutta/  Follow Mr. Vishesh Gupta LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishesh-gupta-5122055/  #visheshgupta #spirituality #bharatsokagakkai #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #sdgs #podcasts

Bentornati su "FRAGRANZE" un podcast che racconta storie di vita quotidiana di chi, grazie al Buddismo, è riuscito a trasformare la propria vita e a farla fiorire. In questo nuovo episodio di Fragranze, vi portiamo una storia intensa di trasformazione e speranza. Sergio e Mirella, marito e moglie, condividono il loro percorso attraverso la malattia, la depressione e la rinascita. Grazie alla pratica buddista della Soka Gakkai, hanno affrontato sfide che sembravano insormontabili, trasformando ogni difficoltà in una nuova opportunità di crescita e consapevolezza. Scopriremo come hanno superato momenti di disperazione e paura, trovando forza e serenità non solo per sé stessi ma anche per la loro famiglia e le persone intorno a loro. Un racconto di resilienza che vi ispirerà a guardare le sfide della vita con occhi nuovi e a scoprire come il Buddismo può aiutarci a far sbocciare la nostra vera essenza, anche nei momenti più bui. Lasciatevi trasportare dalla fragranza di questa storia di coraggio e trasformazione! Buon ascolto!

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Bentornati su "FRAGRANZE" un podcast che racconta storie di vita quotidiana di chi, grazie al Buddismo, è riuscito a trasformare la propria vita e a farla fiorire. In questo episodio Elena ci porta nel mondo di Tatum, una giovane donna che ha trasformato la sua vita professionale attraverso la pratica del Buddismo della Soka Gakkai. Nonostante le difficoltà nel settore della moda, Tatum ha affrontato mobbing e sfide personali con una determinazione incrollabile, trovando forza e chiarezza nei principi buddisti. La sua storia è un esempio di come la saggezza antica può guidare il successo e il benessere nel mondo moderno trasformando la vita professionale oltre che personale. Buon ascolto e… fate sentire la vostra fragranza! “FRAGRANZE” è prodotto da “⁠⁠Il Nuovo Rinascimento⁠⁠”, una pubblicazione a cura dell'⁠⁠Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai⁠⁠. È scritto da Elena Cavallone La cura editoriale è della redazione de "Il Nuovo Rinascimento" Musiche originali, post produzione e montaggio di Frankie Mancuso Producer: Patrizia Grandicelli, Elena Cavallone e Frankie Mancuso Graphic design di Emanuele Becagli Per approfondimenti: - IL NUOVO RINASCIMENTO https://ilnuovorinascimento.org - BUDDISMO E SOCIETÀ https://buddismoesocieta.org - IN POCHE PAROLE, BUDDISMO E VITA QUOTIDIANA segui il podcast su Spotify e su tutte le piattaforme

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Bentornati su "FRAGRANZE" un podcast che racconta storie di vita quotidiana di chi, grazie al Buddismo, è riuscito a trasformare la propria vita e a farla fiorire. In questa puntata esploriamo una domanda eterna: "Che cos'è l'amore?". Attraverso la storia di Francesca, scopriremo come il Buddismo praticato dalla Soka Gakkai può aiutarci a trasformare le nostre vite, superando ostacoli e dolori profondi. Francesca ci racconta come ha trovato forza e fiducia in se stessa grazie alla pratica buddista, affrontando relazioni complicate e sfide personali. Il suo percorso la porterà a scoperte che trasformeranno radicalmente la sua vita. Buon ascolto e… fate sentire la vostra fragranza! “FRAGRANZE” è prodotto da “⁠Il Nuovo Rinascimento⁠”, una pubblicazione a cura dell'⁠Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai⁠. È scritto da Elena Cavallone La cura editoriale è della redazione de "Il Nuovo Rinascimento" Musiche originali, post produzione e montaggio di Frankie Mancuso Producer: Patrizia Grandicelli, Elena Cavallone e Frankie Mancuso Graphic design di Emanuele Becagli

“FRAGRANZE” è un podcast che racconta storie di vita quotidiana di chi, grazie al Buddismo, è riuscito a trasformare la propria vita e a farla fiorire.  In questo primo episodio esploriamo la storia di Valerio, un uomo che ha rivoluzionato radicalmente i suoi rapporti familiari attraverso la pratica buddista della Soka Gakkai. Dall'infanzia difficile segnata dal bullismo e dall'incomprensione dei suoi genitori, fino alla scoperta della pratica e al percorso di rivelazione di sé, Valerio ci racconta come ha trovato il coraggio di affrontare i suoi demoni interiori e di riconciliarsi con la sua famiglia. Scopriamo come la recitazione di "Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo" e i principi buddisti hanno aiutato Valerio a trasformare la sofferenza in forza e compassione, portando a una profonda rinascita interiore e a un rinnovato legame con i suoi genitori. “FRAGRANZE” è prodotto da “Il Nuovo Rinascimento”, una pubblicazione a cura dell'Istituto Buddista Italiano Soka Gakkai. È scritto da Elena Cavallone La cura editoriale è della redazione de "Il Nuovo Rinascimento" Musiche originali, post produzione e montaggio di Frankie Mancuso Producer: Patrizia Grandicelli, Elena Cavallone e Frankie Mancuso Graphic design di Emanuele Becagli

Bright on Buddhism Episode 66 - What is Sōka Gakkai? What is their history? What are some of their teachings? References: Sōka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion By Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek. London: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-829389-5; "The Sōka Gakkai: Buddhism and the Creation of a Harmonious and Peaceful Society" by Daniel A. Metraux in Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, eds. SUNY Press, 1996.; The New Believers: A survey of sects, cults and alternative religions. David V Barrett. Octopus Publishing Group, 2003; The Lotus and the Maple Leaf: The Sōka Gakkai in Canada by Daniel A. Metraux (University Press of America, 1996); Fundamentals of Buddhism (second edition) by Yasuji Kirimura (Nichiren Shōshū International Center [now SGI], 1984). ISBN 4-88872-016-9; Sōka Gakkai kaibō ("Dissecting Sōka Gakkai") by the editors of Aera (Asahi Shimbun, 2000). ISBN 4-02-261286-X (Japanese); A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West. Adam Gamble & Takesato Watanabe. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-89526-046-8; (SERA) Southeast Review of Asian Studies 29 (2007). "Religion, Politics, and Constitutional Reform in Japan," by Daniel Metraux, 157–72.; Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia. Charles S. Prebish and Martin Baumann, eds. 2002.; Igami, Minobu. 1995. Tonari no Sōka Gakkai [The Sōka Gakkai Next Door], Tokyo: Takarajima.; Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia. By Juliana Finucane, R. Michael Feener, pages 103 122.; Neo Yeow Ann Aaron "Studying Soka: Buddhist Conversionn And Religious Change In Singapore" (PDF).; Cooke, Gerald. “Traditional Buddhist Sects and Modernization in Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1, no. 4 (1974): 267–330. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30234421.; Colpe, Carsten. “Syncretism and Secularization: Complementary and Antithetical Trends in New Religious Movements?” History of Religions 17, no. 2 (1977): 158–76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1062359.; Helton, William. “Political Prospects of Soka Gakkai.” Pacific Affairs 38, no. 3/4 (1965): 231–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/2754029.; McLaughlin, Levi. “Did Aum Change Everything? What Soka Gakkai Before, During, and After the Aum Shinrikyō Affair Tells Us About the Persistent ‘Otherness' of New Religions in Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39, no. 1 (2012): 51–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41495889.; McLaughlin, Levi. “From Intellectual Collective to Religion: A History of Soka Gakkai.” In Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan, 35–67. University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvn1w4.6. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by tweeting to us @BrightBuddhism, emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com, or joining us on our discord server, Hidden Sangha https://discord.gg/tEwcVpu! Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brightonbuddhism/message

“Spirituality exists in daily life. In the bowl of oatmeal, in the cup of tea.”Today I'm joined by author, sommelier, and practicing Buddhist Keith Robinson. Since childhood, Crohn's disease has been his life-long nemesis, companion, and teacher. Over his lifetime, Crohn's brought him to the brink of death many times. Keith began to practice and study Nichiren Buddhist teachings at the age of 13.This conversation is inspired by Keith's recent memoir The Buddha in our Bellies, spanning continents and centuries in stories of identity and belonging — we ask ourselves where do we fit?An illuminating and inspiring read, join Keith, his partner Yoshiko and the Buddha himself, to search for joy and purpose through suffering and despair. I highly recommend finding the book!Amazon: https://a.co/d/7CNXnJ6FB: The Buddha in our BelliesEmail Keith: pilgrimsofjoy@gmail.comHere's a few highlights from our chat:➖06:10 Compassion is within every human being➖22:05 Importance of a mentor➖31:40 Making the practice your own➖34:00 At our core, we all believe ourselves to have a purpose➖37:05 Keith reads a chapter from the book (The Awakening)➖41:15 Defining a spiritual life with community, teacher, daily practice & purposeLearn more about Soka Gakkai and practicing Buddhism: www.sokaglobal.org/A wonderful introduction to Nichiren Buddhism, a beautifully shared life story and many nuggets of wisdom that we can all learn from - regardless of our unique circumstances.With love and oneness,BobbiThanks for listening, you beautiful soul!

You're in for a treat in this episode. At least it was a treat for me to have a conversation with Clark Strand. Clark is a former Zen monk, author, Haiku teacher, and communicator of all things spiritual and religious. He has studied and actually practiced within many, many spiritual and religious traditions so he speaks from actual experience. The focus of today's conversation is on his book, Waking the Buddha: How The Most Dynamic and Empowering Buddhist Movement in History is Changing Our Concept of Religion, but Clark is also the author of Seeds From a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey, Now Is the Hour of Her Return: Poems In Praise of the Divine Mother Kali, co-author, with Perdita Finn, of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, and many other books on poetry, spirituality, and ecology. He is the co-founder of an international, non-sectarian rosary fellowship with members across the world. I invited him on the podcast to talk about Nichiren Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, and chanting, in general. It is a subject I haven't covered on this podcast and the timing was sparked by the recent passing of Tina Turner who was a very public Soka Gakkai practitioner. Although the focus of the conversation began with the Soka Gakkai, it became a fascinating journey to many other areas, due to Clark's wide reach and his spiritual depth. Among many other things, we talked about the folk traditions within all religions. Or, as Clark said, "there is always a religion within a religion." … About how the Soka Gakkai became virtually the only ethnically and  racially diverse Buddhist organization religion in the world… About why Clark states that spirituality needs to be about "ecology not theology" and that the reason the thread that runs through his spiritual experience IS ecology and the folk traditions… And, for fellow Pure Land and Shin practitioners, about how the Pure Land tradition is the only tradition deeply grounded in ecology… About Haiku… About the divine feminine, the Divine Mother, and the rosary as a spiritual and NOT a religious practice … and is, essentially, a tantric mantra practice… About the 12-Steps program… About chanting and how it gives voice to one's intentions, dreams, or hopes … and is the most ancient form of spiritual practice… Listen and enjoy the journey... Learn more about Clark: https://wayoftherose.org/   https://tricycle.org/author/clarkstrand/   Buy the books: Waking the Buddha: How the Most Dynamic and Empowering Buddhist Movement in History Is Changing Our Concept of Religion   Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey: 25th Anniversary Edition: Revised & Expanded   The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarkstrand/   https://www.instagram.com/way_of_the_rose/     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarkstrand/       Become a patron to support this podcast and get special member benefits, including a membership community and virtual sangha:https://www.patreon.com/EverydayBuddhism   If this podcast has helped you understand Buddhism or help in your everyday life, consider making a one-time donation here: https://donorbox.org/podcast-donations   Support the podcast through the affiliate link to buy the book, Everyday Buddhism: Real-Life Buddhist Teachings & Practices for Real Change: Buy the book, Everyday Buddhism

Bright on Buddhism Episode 61 - Who was Nichiren? What were some of his views, works, and accomplishments? What is his significance to East Asian Buddhism? Resources: Christensen, J. A. (2000). Nichiren. Fremont, CA: Jain Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0875730868.; Ikeda, Daisaku (July 2013). The opening of the eyes: Commentaries on the writings of Nichiren. Newick. ISBN 9781938252341. OCLC 1063697629.; Ikeda, Daisaku (2013). Learning from Nichiren's Writings: The teachings for victory. Santa Monica, CA. ISBN 9781938252433. OCLC 867769732.; Montgomery, Daniel B. (1991). Fire in the lotus: the dynamic Buddhism of Nichiren. London: Dai Gohonzon. ISBN 978-1852740917.; Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse (1 May 2003). Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2771-7.; Tamura, Yoshiro (2000). Japanese Buddhism : a cultural history (1st English ed.). Tokyo: Kosei Publ. ISBN 978-4333016846.; Tanabe, George, ed. (2002). Writings of Nichiren. Tokyo: Nichiren Shū Overseas Propagation Promotion Association. ISBN 978-0824825515.; The Major Writings of Nichiren. Soka Gakkai, Tokyo, 1999.; Heisei Shimpen Dai-Nichiren Gosho (平成新編　大日蓮御書: "Heisei new compilation of Nichiren's writings"), Taisekiji, 1994.; The Writings of Nichiren, Volume I, Burton Watson and the Gosho Translation Committee. Soka Gakkai, 2006, ISBN 4-412-01024-4.; The Writings of Nichiren, Volume II, Burton Watson and the Gosho Translation Committee. Soka Gakkai, 2006, ISBN 4-412-01350-2.; The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, Burton Watson, trans. Soka Gakkai, 2005, ISBN 4-412-01286-7.; Writings of Nichiren, Chicago, Middleway Press, 2013, The Opening of the Eyes.[1]; Writings of Nichiren, Doctrine 1-6, University of Hawai'i Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8248-2733-3.; Letters of Nichiren, Burton Watson et al., trans.; Philip B. Yampolsky, ed. Columbia University Press, 1996 ISBN 0-231-10384-0.; Selected Writings of Nichiren, Burton Watson et al., trans.; Philip B. Yampolsky, ed. Columbia University, Press, 1990,ISBN 0-231-07260-0.; Sōka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion By Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek. London: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-829389-5; "The Sōka Gakkai: Buddhism and the Creation of a Harmonious and Peaceful Society" by Daniel A. Metraux in Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, eds. SUNY Press, 1996.; Sōka Gakkai kaibō ("Dissecting Sōka Gakkai") by the editors of Aera (Asahi Shimbun, 2000). ISBN 4-02-261286-X (Japanese); A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West. Adam Gamble & Takesato Watanabe. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-89526-046-8; Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia. Charles S. Prebish and Martin Baumann, eds. 2002.; Igami, Minobu. 1995. Tonari no Sōka Gakkai [The Sōka Gakkai Next Door], Tokyo: Takarajima.; Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia. By Juliana Finucane, R. Michael Feener, pages 103 122. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brightonbuddhism/message

Hello, and welcome back to Practical Transcendence, a podcast in which we have grounded discussions on the tangibility of spiritual awakening, where we explore the guiding and common principles, as well as what is unique to each individual. Today I'm talking to Paul Eyers, a Buddhist in the lineage of Nichiren Daishonin which has been revived in todays world by Soka Gakkai International. He provides an overview of this slightly different take on the teachings of the Buddha and the centrality of a specific chant in manifesting your Buddha Nature. Paul goes into detail regarding two significant awakenings that came after a period of suffering linked to feeling like an outsider, and puts this in the context of his practice. Paul's experiences reflect many of our own process on the spiritual path, in that nothing is linear, and when we go deeper within, we inevitably encounter pain points that can be the pathway to realisation.

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What does Buddhism say about happiness? Better yet, how do we access it and sustain it, especially when faced with difficulties? In today's episode, Rachel Salomonsen and Jim Krampf talk us through two of the biggest challenges to our happiness—our relationships with loved ones and situations in which we are faced with impossibly difficult circumstances. Here's the key takeaway: By chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and taking full responsibility for our happiness, we can become people of conviction and tolerance—key qualities of a life of sustainable happiness. Note: Buddhist Solutions for Life's Problems is supported by subscriptions to SGI-USA publications. It will be published every other month. For access to past podcasts, the print and online editions of World Tribune and Living Buddhism and the new World Tribune app, visit worldtribune.org.References:This episode is based on the feature article from the March 2022 issue of Living Buddhism titled “Sustainable Happiness.”7:25: October 2020 Living Buddhism, p. 15.28:18: The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, revised edition, p. 230.28:54: “On the Buddha's Prophecy,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 402.45:34: “Happiness in This World,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 681.48:03: “Reply to Kyo'o,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 412.49:14: The New Human Revolution, vol. 2, revised edition, pp. 86–87.51:48: The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai, p. 20.

An exploration of The Tower via Frost's Fire and Ice. The Tower is an archetype which invites us to explore and consider sudden change, upheaval, and chaos in our lives, as well as a kind of revelation or awakening sometimes associated with the word "enlightenment" as it is sometimes linked to personal transformation. If you would like to hear more episodes like this, please consider subscribing to my Tarot Cure podcast: [iTunes link] [Spotify link] This particular exploration of The Tower, we make together via the following cultural stepping stones: Irene Solà's novel When I Sing, Mountains Dance Nichiren and his Soka Gakkai chums chanting of Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Sessions with my shrink "Magic Mike" discussing the end of a relationship Giant waterfalls Woody Allen's opening monologue to Annie Hall Mumford & Sons' cover of Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire Siddhartha Gautama's first "podcast" (The Four Noble Truths, with a focus on his "thirsting" (Second Truth) of Taṇhā Siddhartha Gautama's second "podcast" (the Adittapariyaya Sutta - The Fire Sermon) which has also been turned into the following poem: ALL IS ARDOUR All is ardour burning & blaze Eye is ardour ear is ardour nose lips tongue ardour mind ardour body ardour burning burning burning away. Sound burning scent burning taste burning touch burning incandescent bone fires burning burning pleasure burning pain

This week we're throwin' a party! A POLITICAL party! Under the smug, starfucking veneer of leader Daisaku Ikeida, a Japanese Buddhism rip-offshoot called Soka Gakkai that is also a political party? With like 20% of the vote?!? I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation (there isn't). We're also partying down in an abandoned secretarial school, in Paris! That's thanks to Thierry Tilly, a run-of-the-mill creep who bled a family of French aristocrats dry, and if you're not noting any sadness in this sentence, you're not imagining things. Hon hon! Bread! Also this week we realize our podcast's long lost tag line: "Something to look forward to; and something to do."

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Ritu is a graduate from IIM Bangalore, one of India's top business schools. After spending 25 years in the corporate world she decided to take a break for 6 months, certain that at the end of it she would go back to work. But during the six months she discovered the joys of a being a homemaker and found peace within herself. She realised she had no desire to get back to the rat race. She now works as a consultant to a couple of companies but does this on her own terms, being careful to preserve her 'me time'. Ritu loves to read, listen and embrace lessons from different philosophies. She loves to dance and her favourite time of the day is when she is watching a comedy show on TV with her two daughters. The buddhist organisation Ritu refers to is Bharat Soka Gakkai, part of worldwide organisation Soka Gakkai. The book that really changed things for Ritu, especially in her workplace is Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

From the outside, my 18 year old self looked exceptionally successful for my age.  I was an honor student, with a full ride academic scholarship to an expensive liberal arts college. I was a creative person, who appeared with my well built masks to be flamboyant and confident in herself, her direction and dreams.  No one knew I was dying inside and so afraid to leave my room everyday without multiple layers of psychological armor.  But I was so afraid. The negative self talk and anxiety was so loud and took up so much room in my life. I didn't even know there was space for me to exist.  The true me. Me who was not all of those masks.  You follow? A Clear Mind is a Creative Mind A quiet mind is a powerful mind. A quiet mind equals an empowered person and a joyful life.  I will repeat myself on this topic many, many, many more times over. Ultimately if you have mind clutter it is just as bad as a hoarder's house - there is no room for new thoughts because there are already thoughts piled up to the ceiling. Your thoughts, other people's thoughts, to-do list thoughts, childhood memory thoughts, negative self-talk thoughts, imposter syndrome thoughts, etc… In this hoarder's house of mind cluttered with all these loud boisterous, obnoxious or chirpy or even hurtful thoughts floating around - how can you hear your brilliant higher self thoughts above the cacophony?  Abundance producing thoughts of godlike wonder and light are covered and hidden because it is too loud in there. There are too many distractions and things and you just can't discern or hear your true creator voice in the mess.  So that is why this Law of Abundance is so essential. A quiet mind is a creative mind. Yoda said it. Quiet your mind. Buddha said it about 500 different ways.  Jesus said it. Deepak Chopra says it. All the new age gurus on YouTube and beyond say it.  The Lineage of King Solomon says it and the first and foremost step for anyone on a personal development journey is - Meditation: the practice of quieting the mind.   Without first meditating and clearing out the noise factory you cannot actually observe what is going on - let alone be open to new wonders of creation that come from your higher self.  And although I'm a guide & teacher in the Lineage of King Solomon, sharing tools from an over 3000 year old path - of which the #1 tool is meditation - you don't have to take my word for it.  Just Google  “benefits of meditation” and see what comes up.  There is study after study that shows people who meditate are more healthy, productive, creative and happy than those who do not meditate. This is one of the many areas where science and metaphysics and spiritually completely agree.  Meditation - the act of quieting and observing the mind, makes you better at life, and allows you to have and create more abundance.  Why it works is because it clears the mind chatter of the subconscious and collective consciousness out of your way. So you can simply tune in to source, to your high self, to you, to your positive ego. By tuning into the quiet pond of stillness within you releases the hoarder's house of funk in your mind that keeps you trapped in FEAR and monkey mind, you break the cycle of autonomous programming that puts you on repeat. You release the pen up energy of anxiety.  As  a Kabbalist we say “you empty your cup” as a Buddhist we say we bow to your buddha nature and get past your fundamental darkness that keeps you blind.  As a spiritual guide I say “you tap into the Holy Spirit - the collective consciousness of higher selves of humanity.” And when all you can hear is quiet - the matrix machine of manufactured stories is turned off. Then and only then you can hear yourself. Know the truth, and like Neo who stepped out of the matrix you can learn your true power and create unabashedly in a multidimensional way because you will be flowing abundance of creative energy with true sight, free of limiting beliefs.  I admit it wholeheartedly, I am a meditating pusher. It is a possible thing for a human being to do daily.  It saved my life when I was 18 years old. I had severe social anxiety and an eating disorder, because the only thing I thought I had control over was my body. And I was slowly killing myself, not eating, medicating myself with marijuana to function.  Then I started meditating and chanting nam myoho renge kyo daily when I met these lovely young women who told me about it.  They said it helped them be happier.  So I tried it.  I was miserable, I had nothing to lose.   Then I started chanting and meditating and my first big epiphany that ultimately saved my life was this “ You have the right to breathe. You can take up space in this world.”  In other words, you Angel, a unique being on this planet - feel free to move about this world, by the very nature of your existence.   My higher self started with the fundamentals for me. I told me what I needed to hear. “You have the right to exist and take up space in this world.” And from that point forward I began to grow into the multidimensional renaissance woman that I am today.  All because every day I go to the quiet pond and I get to know myself. I call in my true self. I clear away the thought clutter and I allow my higher self to speak to me.  Anyone listening to this - entrepreneur, creative artist, business owner, fellow attorney (especially attorneys, please listen we have so many weights on our shoulders because of our profession), moms, corporate ladder climbers, whoever you are, whatever labels you identify with, whatever you are trying to do with your life. If you start daily with a little bit of meditation and a quiet mind it is going to help you. There are actually think tanks out there that only work with people who meditate because they are a better investment.  So alright angel - you might be saying, I buy it but “I can't meditate, I've tried and I've failed countless times.” So to this I call Bullshit. And I encourage you to try again with some assistance. There are so many meditation apps available now, and daily on the interwebs there is someone out there in my spiritual lineage teaching the max meditation system. The max meditation system is an easy to do , introductory method of meditation that anyone can do and everyone will at some point in the 30 min to 60 min session  will reach a meditative brain wave state.   The max meditation system was developed by Founder Gudni Gudnason and Ipsissimus i.e. fully actualize human benign and one of my mentors on the planet today. He is a lineage holder for the lineage of King Solomon and the Founder of the Modern Mystery School International - the school that I go to to pursue study of the Universal Hermetic Ray Kabbalah and learn other energy and healing means I choose to learn for myself and others. Founder Gudni combined eastern and western means of meditation in a specific order to allow people to achieve the state of actual meditation. The 5 steps lead you naturally there and all you have to do is follow the voice of the meditation facilitator. The method works for everyone. I promise.  Another means to meditate is to chant nam myoho renge kyo. It might feel weird to chant words you don't understand over and over again, but the energy and vibration of the mantra is purifying and raises your chi and your vibration such that you clear the mind clutter and positive energy and creative energy come into your life.  One just needs to look at the exceptionally productive and impactful life of Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International to see that Nam myoho renge kyo is a wellspring of light and joy for one who chooses to use it.  And I have been lucky to be able to study and listen to his prolific words for the past 25 years of my life to learn from him as a mentor and another example of what a fully actualized human being can do if they quiet the mind, open the heart and live from their highest self.  Chanting and quiet meditation through systems offered in the organized spiritual system of the Soka Gakkai or the Modern Mystery School International have been my way to access the quiet pond - to get to my abundance creator goddess self so that I can live my life as the protagonist of my story.  I make my reality because I choose to meditate and learn and lean into my power.  I offer them as means that are out there - and also to be completely direct that I have used schools of thought with structure to find my path, because structure is necessary for creation. Learning a discipline and practicing it is a means to freedome  And I share because Both are organizations that have been slandered as cults and pervoyers of mind control and other abuses of their members - Founder Gudni, Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon and Ipsissmus Hideto _______ were recently been accused of being leaders of a sex cult, and Daisaku Ikeda has been arrested multiple times for attempting to propogate the way to reach buddhahood in this lifetime.  To this I just want to note that Jesus too was persecuted because he was speaking the truth.  A truth that leads individuals to their source, their higher self, their power, their empowerment - which is dangerous.  An empowered person is not a controllable person.  A person who is aware that they create their own reality is a threat to those who prefer that humans remain sheeple. So I pose this - if someone is truly showing people how to be free, how to think for themselves, how to hear their own voice and tap into their highest human potential and power - is not there being attacked by the powers that be, the powers that prey on sheeple, a sign that what they are saying truly powerful and good for the sake of humanity?   This is a topic for a whole other podcast episode and I will likely revisit it sooner than later, but for now I just want to put it out there.  As I do not want anyone to google the Modern Mystery School or the Soka Gakkai and think I am brainwashed by not one but two cults because of what some drama creating tabloid writer has posted on the internet.  And honestly if you do think I'm brainwashed - you aren't listening to me at all.  I've created my world because I am an independent discerning thinker who meditates and practices gratitude and love everyday of her life.  I chose a path and methods practiced by others because I find discipline freeing and it produces results.  I, like a scientist, tested the methods in my life and like the results they have offered me after days, months, years and decades of daily practice.   So let's switch gears here for a second.  Even more real talk. I am an attorney who volunteers on the front lines of social justice assisting with the Housing Justice Project here in Seattle. I've been trying through my work for the past 15 years to prevent homelessness, using the means my legal education, and my spiritual education have given me. As I have these skills I take responsibility where I can to attempt to help solve the problem.   What does this have to do with meditation?  The human condition today is a melee of angry, sad, crisis ridden thoughts. People are in different states of victim and energy expending loops of futility. But even when I'm sitting with a person facing down the crisis of possible homelessness I always encourage them. Not by feeding the fire of Victim, but by having us take a deep breath and look at where, from the quiet mind (as best as we can get there in the moment) they have a choice and power in the situation. And maybe, that place is only their own personal reaction to what is going on around them, and/or to the person who may be wronging them.  If we can reach that perspective in the now - it will turn off the reactionary mind and you can create choices that empower and help you even in the face of multiple crappy choices.   So please, for the sake of the endeavors you want to create, for your own personal abundance, and the greater good of humanity I encourage you to start finding a way to meditate. If even 2% of the world is able to find a way to access their higher self and wake up to their power, there will be a quantum shift in the collective consciousness and the whole world could awaken. This is a principle in quantum physics, not religion.  Look it up.  In the meantime - there is a free 15 minute quiet pond meditation on my website.  Go there, watch it, download an App like Calm, go out to a meditation in your area, watch a guided meditation online. If you are completely stuck - reach out! I can help with that! Remember a  quiet mind is a creative mind.  A quiet mind is a powerful mind. A quiet mind equals and empowered person and a joyful life.  Meditation is like magic. You will create something from the nothing of the quiet mind.

Shweta Kawatra is an Indian film actress, model and television presenter. She is married to TV actor Manav Gohil. They participated in the dance competition show Nach Baliye 2 where Manav was awarded best dancer by Saroj Khan. After eight years of marriage, the couple became parents to a daughter, Zahara Tabeetha, (born on 11 May 2012). Kawatra practices Buddhism and is a member of the Soka Gakkai. She is best known for her role as Pallavi Agarwal in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and as Nivedita Mittal in Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan. She has had appearances in many other TV serials, most notably in C.I.D.. She appears in Sawal E Ishq to answer love questions on fame Bollywood. She played Bhayankar Pari in Baal Veer.

Jackie VanCampen is the author of Letter to My Daughter: A Mother's Journey of Healing and Transformation, and co-author of Amazon Best-Seller Miracles, Momentum, and Manifestation - Unleash the Secret Powers of Having the Life You Desire and The Little Black Book of Fitness. Her album titles Jackie VanCampen's Soulful Expression debuted in the Top 10 on Amazon and has touched many people.She is a medium, direct channel, and energy healer. She's also a motivational speaker and founder of Wise Heart Within, which serves to support and facilitate healing and transformation in every area of life.After experiencing a spiritual awakening in 2011, when she was visited by what she calls , "Beings of Light," Jackie knew her life was going to change completely. She is a bridge between the Earth and the Spiritual realms and facilitates connection between oneself and one's spirit guides as well as the deceased loved ones.Jackie has been featured on various podcasts and interviews and was also a contributor writer on various online media outlets, including having one of her poems published in Spiritual Writer's Network book Whispers of the Soul, A Poetry Anthology, and in Journey of the Heart.She is an NLP and Timeline Certified practitioner, as well as Reiki and Access Bars practitioner and is immersed in the personal and spiritual development world. She combines her expertise and tools with her intuitive gifts and abilities to provide the ultimate healing and coaching experience.Jackie is a Woman's Leader in the Soka Gakkai , a lay Buddhist organization dedicated to spreading happiness through peace, culture, and education, and Community Leader with Women for Women International. Connect with Jackie at www.WiseHeartWithin.com or Jacqueline@wiseheartwithin.com

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This week, we wrap up our look at Soka Gakkai with the history of its split from Nichiren Shoshu. Plus, we take some time to look at the various controversies surrounding the group and what they say about Soka Gakkai's position in Japanese society. Show notes here.

This week, we're talking about some of the major projects of Ikeda's time as leader of Soka Gakkai, including both the foundation of Soka Gakkai's political party and the construction of the Sho Hondo, a grand new hall for Nichiren teachings. Show notes here.

This week, we continue our look at the history of Soka Gakkai during the tenure of Toda Josei. We'll also turn to the rise of the most influential figure in the movement today (and arguably its most influential leader ever): the third president of Soka Gakkai, Ikeda Daisaku.

This week, we're starting a multi-episode series on one of Japan's most famous organizations: the study society-turned-religion-turned-political-party known as the Value Creation Society, or Soka Gakkai. Show notes here.

En el cuarto episodio de "Cambiando el lente" hablamos sobre el Budismo de Nichiren Daishonin, con Alejandra García, miembro de Soka Gakkai, organización de este tipo de budismo. Alejandra nos cuenta cómo empezó a practicar este budismo y de qué se trata la filosofía y práctica de este, qué lo hace diferente de otros tipos de budismo y en qué la ha beneficiado practicarlo. Instagram de Cambiando el lente: https://www.instagram.com/cambiandoel... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ewOg4Tu59RCkbUV7QjH-Q?view_as=subscriber

In this episode, Allison Alexy talks with Prof. Levi McLaughlin, whose research focuses on religion in contemporary Japan. The conversation centers on his new book Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan, exploring Buddhist practices and beliefs among within the Soka Gakkai religious sect. Topics of discussion include: the history of Soka Gakkai, attitudes toward religion in Japan, social class and classism, stigma and prejudice, and doing ethnographic fieldwork. If you're interested in learning more about Dr. McLaughlin's work, please watch his presentation in the Center for Japanese Studies' lecture series.Dr. Levi McLaughlin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. You can find him on twitter @mclaughlin_levi.Michigan Talks Japan is produced by Robin Griffin, Justin Schell, and Allison Alexy and is supported by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has... Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) claims to have 12 million members in 192 countries around the world. Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism to a highly significant source of influence in contemporary Japanese education and politics. In Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), Levi McLaughlin argues that Soka Gakkai comprises a great deal more than Buddhism and is instead best conceived as the product of “twin legacies” – lay Nichiren Buddhism and modern Euro-American humanist imports. Drawing on nearly two decades of archival and non-member fieldwork in the Soka Gakkai communities in Japan, McLaughlin offers a comprehensive study of the new religious movement and suggests a new framework which understands Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state in which it took place. To demonstrate this argument, McLaughlin traces in his book Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution the history of the movement from intellectual collective to religion and examines their creation of new religious canon, such as Ikeda Daisaku’s The Human Revolution, as well as pedagogy in the movement through standardized education and the Soka Gakkai idea of women as Good Wives, Wise Mothers. Daigengna Duoer is a PhD student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She mainly researches on Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her research interests also include the role Buddhism plays in modernity, colonialism, and transnational/transregional networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introduccion del libro : El Sutra del loto. Soka Gakkai. Leído por Maria Fernanda Hubeaut.

A record 237 women won seats in 41 prefectural assemblies as part of nationwide unified local elections on April 7, an increase from 207 compared with four years ago. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won more than half of the 2,277 seats. Only 55 candidates are female. End up 41 candidates won the race. Last year, "gender equality in the political field" was activated. All parties meant to prepare equal numbers of female candidates as big as male candidates. Look at the main parties, only the Japanese Communist Party had 111 females which is 46% of their all candidates. While women from a range of backgrounds won seats in the latest elections, more than 150 female candidates were unsuccessful in their bids. Female winners accounted for 10.4 percent of the total. This number wouldn't be changed if LDP party keep their male candidates on the next assemblies again. Japan is known for the two-big party system. Main Opposition Party is Constitutional Democratic Party which produced 29 female members. CDP's power is quite small, You can't expect a big change. Actually, we are a multi-party system. The second biggest ruling party, New Komeito which often relate to Soka Gakkai. This party has set 477 female candidates on the assemblies. As a result, only 14 candidates were elected. There is a big problem behind such a small number of 237 women out of 2,277 candidates. First of all, LDP is male dominant party. Only 1 woman join Abe's ministry. Here is an ungrateful number by CNN. Japan came 165th out of 193 countries listed in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) study. As of January 1, only 47 of Japan's 463 lower house lawmakers were women -- compared to a 24% global average and 19.6% average in Asia. Secondly, I assume, most Japanese people are lack of awareness about male dominant society. Women are treated unequally. Male get a high salary but female less. Maternity leave is not guaranteed. 2019prefectualpole.mp3 Asahi http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201904080040.html JapanTimes https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-fractured-ldp-bags-half-prefectural-seats-first-leg-polls/#.XKwTFhMzbOR CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/asia/japan-female-politicians-intl/index.html Act on Promotion of Gender Equality in the Political Field http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?re=02&vm=04&id=3139

Levi McLaughlin speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Throughout Japanese history, religion has always coloured and influenced the matters of the state. Religious validation of imperialist aggression and Japan’s war efforts in the first half of the 20th century is just one example of this.

En samling buddhister har samlats i en stor villa i fina Saltsjöbaden för att fira: Marie som chantar för att hitta kärleken  och buddhistledaren Fredrik, som chantade bort sin ätstörning. Svenska Soka Gakkai-buddhisterna öppnade upp sin verksamhet här i Saltsjöbaden på nationaldagen för 28 år sedan.  Då var gruppens internationelle ledare, Daisaku Ikeda, på plats för att träffa Sveriges kung och drottning, samt den då väldigt lilla svenska förgreningen av Soka Gakkai. Verkligheten i P3 besöker buddhisterna i Saltsjöbaden på årsdagen av invigningen. Reporter: Sigge Dabrowski

Paolo Labati nel tempio Soka Gakkai. Marta Zoboli da Sanremo

As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief effort following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, responding to both physical and psychological needs.

Delle tante elzioni del week-end le più incomprensibili sono quelle in Ucraina e a Reggio Calabria: ce le facciamo raccontare da Massimo Nicolini preparatore atletico dello Shaktar Donetsk e da Tonino Perna, assessore alla cultura di Messina ma reggino. A Corsico poi si è aperto il centro Soka Gakkai più grande d'Europa

Franco Malusardi, vice direttore del centro

Welcoming Clark Strand to the show this morning, former Zen Buddhist Monk and author of "Waking the Buddha." Listen as Strand introduces a dynamic Buddhist movement in the world, know as the Soka Gakkai. Hear the history, the integration into the lives of today and the practices that make this movement so unique. http://wakingthebuddha.org

Mr. Mikio Yamane and Mr. Taro Hasimoto, Soka Gakkai Youth Division Leaders and representatives of the recovery area discuss the Soka Gakkai relief efforts after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. They share their experiences and the principles of Soka Gakkai that fuel the continuing post disaster initiative.

Do historians of East Asia sufficiently account for the role of religious communities in the construction of history? Of course, there are histories of the Taiping Rebellion, and groups like Soka Gakkai or Falungong. But have historians probed how these movements have shaped the history of China and Japan more generally? Thomas David DuBois, Senior Research Fellow at Australian National University, argues that religion forcefully shaped the social, political, military, and economic dimensions of modern East Asia. In his new book, Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), DuBois explores a variety of religious actors and groups who were influential from the fourteenth century until today. The book outlines both continuing characteristics, such as Chinese millenarian movements and heresies, Japanese temples and funerals, Zen Buddhism and the Samurai, and also key events, including Matteo Ricci's efforts in China, the Buddhist danka system, the Boxer Uprising, D.T. Suzuki, and the Dalai Lama. DuBois also explores how East Asian religions are transforming in a globalizing world and the effects the will have on the future of East Asia. During our too brief conversation we discussed Zhu Yuanzhang, the success and failures of Christian Missionaries, Buddhism and Shinto in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, the diversity of Japanese Buddhisms, the Chinese Communist Party's position on religion, and new religious movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do historians of East Asia sufficiently account for the role of religious communities in the construction of history? Of course, there are histories of the Taiping Rebellion, and groups like Soka Gakkai or Falungong. But have historians probed how these movements have shaped the history of China and Japan more...

Do historians of East Asia sufficiently account for the role of religious communities in the construction of history? Of course, there are histories of the Taiping Rebellion, and groups like Soka Gakkai or Falungong. But have historians probed how these movements have shaped the history of China and Japan more generally? Thomas David DuBois, Senior Research Fellow at Australian National University, argues that religion forcefully shaped the social, political, military, and economic dimensions of modern East Asia. In his new book, Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), DuBois explores a variety of religious actors and groups who were influential from the fourteenth century until today. The book outlines both continuing characteristics, such as Chinese millenarian movements and heresies, Japanese temples and funerals, Zen Buddhism and the Samurai, and also key events, including Matteo Ricci’s efforts in China, the Buddhist danka system, the Boxer Uprising, D.T. Suzuki, and the Dalai Lama. DuBois also explores how East Asian religions are transforming in a globalizing world and the effects the will have on the future of East Asia. During our too brief conversation we discussed Zhu Yuanzhang, the success and failures of Christian Missionaries, Buddhism and Shinto in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, the diversity of Japanese Buddhisms, the Chinese Communist Party’s position on religion, and new religious movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do historians of East Asia sufficiently account for the role of religious communities in the construction of history? Of course, there are histories of the Taiping Rebellion, and groups like Soka Gakkai or Falungong. But have historians probed how these movements have shaped the history of China and Japan more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do historians of East Asia sufficiently account for the role of religious communities in the construction of history? Of course, there are histories of the Taiping Rebellion, and groups like Soka Gakkai or Falungong. But have historians probed how these movements have shaped the history of China and Japan more generally? Thomas David DuBois, Senior Research Fellow at Australian National University, argues that religion forcefully shaped the social, political, military, and economic dimensions of modern East Asia. In his new book, Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), DuBois explores a variety of religious actors and groups who were influential from the fourteenth century until today. The book outlines both continuing characteristics, such as Chinese millenarian movements and heresies, Japanese temples and funerals, Zen Buddhism and the Samurai, and also key events, including Matteo Ricci’s efforts in China, the Buddhist danka system, the Boxer Uprising, D.T. Suzuki, and the Dalai Lama. DuBois also explores how East Asian religions are transforming in a globalizing world and the effects the will have on the future of East Asia. During our too brief conversation we discussed Zhu Yuanzhang, the success and failures of Christian Missionaries, Buddhism and Shinto in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, the diversity of Japanese Buddhisms, the Chinese Communist Party’s position on religion, and new religious movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight we have a lecture on "Letter to Misawa". This lectures is about many things, but one thing is for sure it does address the three obstacles and four devils. Perhaps because it does so it might explain why it has taken 5 months to write 3 times, why cables went missing right before we started the show and a myriad of others obstacles emerged! Some of tonights themes include: Practicing correctly involves transforming the negativity in the world around you Three obstacles and four devils What is the devil king of the 6th heaven anyway? Nikko takes it to the man Self reliant faith The Gohonzon certifies that Buddhahood exists Some experience of overcoming obstacles What do you want to break through? Why is the Soka Gakkai different? Its a full show and along with the shout outs we play three tracks tonight from the Podsafe Music Network (http://www.mevio.com) We play Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton (http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=97007092b961d7e9a7d77c2614ee0086) who sings Code Monkey http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=211036259&s=143444 And we play two tracks from Adrina Thorpe (http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a892daf89e5efee9bd4705bbf8c092fc) who sings Coming Home and Fly Fly Fly She is also on iTunes! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=64954602&s=143444 In response to the many requests for TShirts we are now able to offer them for almost half the previous price and twice the quality! Thanks Polly Earnest and Helen Steyner of PressOffers.com who have created the shop for us! Thank you for all your support, encouragement, comments and input! It is such great good fortune to be able to do this podcast.

Another full show! Tonights lecture is on Nichiren Daishonin's teaching called, On The Buddha's Prophecy. The lecture is about the purpose of Buddhist practice. Some of the headings include: A Leap Month! Life at Ichinosawa Bodhisattva Medicine King Former, Middle and Latter Day of the Law Doing time in the "When I" Prison The teaching, the teacher and the mission What did the priests do for 700 years? The Soka Gakkai fullfills the Buddha's Prophecy Its time to create happiness We have President Ikeda's New Year's message for 2009, read by Ken George. There are shoutouts and music from Ioda Promonet including "Balance" by Sara Tavares which you can buy here at iTunes Music Store The second track we play tonight is by Cohen which is also availabe here!Gold Is Where You Find It (mp3) We are proud members of the Ioda Alliance! Thankyou for all your support and encouragement! Have a fantastic week.

Daisaku Ikeda Pictured with General NoriegaDaisaku Ikeda, president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI),  has 555 honorary citizenships and holds the most honorary doctorates awarded to a single individual![LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]Yoshihiro Tsurumi: "The Bush administration,regards democracyin Japan as no different from that of Russia. Both are viewed as'kleptocracies.' On the surface, the political leaders are elected; butthe truth is that they constitute a country completely dominated by theruling party, which is in cahoots with the bureaucrats. Through thedistortions generated by their years of holding onto control and theelection system, they work with pressure groups that support them fortheir own benefits. It is as if the citizens were under domination of agang of robbers." Takayoshi Kitagawa: "While I wouldn't say that Soka Gakkai is seen as a cult, they are a very structured, organized, militarist group that wields immense political power."Takashi Shokei: Ikeda is "[a] power-hungry individual who intends to take control of the government and make Soka Gakkai the national religion."Notice Board:Rick Ross: Archive for Soka GakkaiRick Ross (consultant) Daisaku Ikeda's WikipediaMichiyo Nakamoto: Japan's LDP puts faith in religious partner Rie Tsumura: Rape claims are unacceptableRepublic of Palau Honors Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Choice cuts: Ikeda's Problematic Speech Japan Today: Outspoken professor vents fury over Asahi Shimbun story spike Soka Gakkai’s Cocaine Business Polly Toynbee: The Value of a Grandfather Figure"Soka Gakkai "