August 2025

Features

Noble gatherings for peace

This month, Justine Marchant shares the history and profound significance of our discussion meeting movement

NHR Features Daisaku Ikeda

Sunlight

This chapter, from volume nineteen of The New Human Revolution written by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda describes how Shin’ichi delivers his first overseas lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles

Features Mentor & Disciple

Learning from the disciples

In this article about the spirit of Nichiren Daishonin’s disciples, Jean Petrovic explores the life of the Lay Nun Myoho

SGI Anniversaries Features

SGI Anniversaries: August 2025

Daisaku Ikeda joins the Soka Gakkai

New Voices

Everything starts with having the courage to try

SGI President Daisaku Ikeda went to his first discussion meeting, where he met his mentor Josei Toda, on 14 August 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War

New Voices

Stay cheerful and grow strong and tall like sunflowers

In Japanese, sunflowers are called himawari, which means ‘following the sun’, because young sunflowers continue to turn towards the sun as it moves across the sky from morning to night. Based on this, President Ikeda encourages us to live cheerfully and with hope

New Voices

Have the courage to try!

SGI President Daisaku Ikeda encourages us to drive out the negative thoughts and fill our hearts with dreams and hopes. Let’s try to do that this summer and fill our days with wonderful activities. See if you can find the words listed below in this puzzle

New Voices

Having great determination!

Dahlia, age 4, drew this beautiful picture after reading the story of The Tiger and the General, which is a book published by SGI-USA

New Voices

Family fun day in Devon!

Devon Headquarters held a family fun day for their Future Division members on  18 May, writes Siobhan Jarrett