January 2025

Art of Living In this issue

Year of Soaring Higher Towards a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide

by Jessica Squier in AOL January 2025 Featured — December, 2024

Introduction to the articles and themes of the January 2025 issue by Art of Living editor, Jessica Squier

Editorial Encouragement

Joyfully writing our own dramas of human revolution

by Minoru Harada in AOL January 2025 Featured — December, 2024

In this editorial, written at the end of last year, Minoru Harada shares how daily Soka Gakkai activities improve our life

Features

Welcome to the ‘Year of Soaring Higher Towards a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide’!

by Suzanne Pritchard & Robert Harrap in AOL January 2025 Featured — December, 2024

Message from Suzanne Pritchard and Robert Harrap, Co-Chairs of SGI Europe

Encouragement

Editorial Encouragement

Joyfully writing our own dramas of human revolution

by Minoru Harada in AOL January 2025 Dec 19, 2024 — 2 min read

In this editorial, written at the end of last year, Minoru Harada shares how daily Soka Gakkai activities improve our life

Gosho Study Encouragement

The mission of our Soka network: bringing humanity together with the spirit of compassion

by Daisaku Ikeda in AOL January 2025 Dec 19, 2024 — 25 min read

SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s special lecture from 2015 written in commemoration of 26 January, Soka Gakkai International Day

Encouragement

Building an unshakeable foundation for human happiness and peace

by Daisaku Ikeda in AOL January 2025 Dec 19, 2024 — 5 min read

In this essay, first published in 2022, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda encourages us to foster friendships and young people

NHR Encouragement

SGI

by Daisaku Ikeda in AOL January 2025 Dec 19, 2024 — 5 min read

This chapter, from volume twenty-one of The New Human Revolution written by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda, gives a detailed account of the background to the establishment of the SGI at the First World Peace Conference in Guam

Experiences

Experiences Youth

Taking the initiative and learning from President Ikeda

by Ricky Baynes in AOL January 2025 Dec 19, 2024 — 3 min read

In 2005, former SGI-UK General Director Ricky Baynes shared his personal experience of attending the conference in Guam during which the SGI was founded