Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well, time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set. Also spoke to Prime Minister Abe of Japan to inform him of the ongoing negotiations.
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Kannon is the Supreme God of the Lotus Sutra and all Buddhists. When she sings Let go and Let God she is channeling Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra which is the most important chapter. No matter how tough life gets always have faith in Kannon the Almighty God who perceives all and can answer all prayers. All praise Kannon and the Lotus Sutra!!!
This video is edited by SGI Youth Division members, to give a presentation at our local meeting as the anniversary.
The original song created for World Youth General Meeting, which was held on March 11, 2018.
・The song is available to download as well.
この映像は、青年部の有志により編集され、地域の会合で、記念として発表したものです。
オリジナルソングは、世界青年部総会（2018年3月11日）のために制作された「This is My Name」。
An introduction to the SGI, its philosophical underpinnings in the Buddhist teachings of Shakyamuni and Nichiren, and SGI members' Buddhist practice. (Click on "CC" for explanatory subtitles.) For more information, go to http://www.sgi.org/about-us/sgi-timel...
When you can't find your direction
And your heart won't guide you home
Let Go
Let God
When your dreams are broken in the dust
And you've lost the will to trust
Let Go
Let God
Let the signs remind you
We are passengers
Let the signs remind you
To surrender
To surrender
Let Go and Let God
When faith's a dying fire
And there's no spark to feed the flame
Let Go and Let God
When your courage fails you
And the well of hope runs dry
Let Go and Let God
Let the signs remind you
We are passengers
Let the signs remind you
To surrender
To surrender
Let Go and Let God
Leonardo Duricic, SGI member from Germany, explains that chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the key that unlocks the Buddha nature—a wellspring of wisdom and compassion that inherently exists in the very depths of the lives of all people. For more information, read http://www.sgi.org/nam-myoho-renge-ky...
The Legendary Herbie Hancock finally came to the Jakarta International java Jazz Festival.
It was a prestigous presentation for Java Jazz to have Herbie Hancok perform as he is one of "THE" biggest names one can find on this planet. Herbie Hancock is a "GIANT", Simply amazing, but yes, they actually are from outside our planet!!!!! Hope you enjoy.
The Far East of late has become something of a spawning ground for spiritual leaders bent on converting the world. There was South Korea's Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 55, a self-ordained Christian missionary (and self-made millionaire) whose message of repentance was blatted across the U.S. last year by thousands of zealous young converts to his Unification Church (TIME, Sept. 30). Yet another prophet is Daisaku Ikeda, 46, president and spiritual leader of Japan's Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), a laymen's Buddhist organization. Ikeda is fast earning a reputation as a super missionary for peace.
Although the sect's Utopian approach to global problems often sounds like an Oriental echo of Moral Re-Armament, Ikeda carries more political clout than most religious leaders. His organization is the founder of Japan's Komeito (Clean Government) party, which emerged second only to the combined forces of the Socialists and Communists as an opposition party in the last election. Moreover, on his global mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address his organization's 200,000 converts in the country, Ikeda will meet U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to inform him that Soka Gakkai has collected 10 million signatures against nuclear armament.
Lotus Sutra. Although Soka Gakkai is based on the teachings of a zealous 13th century Japanese monk named Nichiren Daishonin, who sought to demystify and simplify Buddhism, it has little in common with Zen or other more meditative sects. The emphasis is placed on repeated chanting of the Diamoku, (worship formula) in praise of the lotus sutra. Members must prove their piety by making fresh converts. One of their most debatable practices is shakubuku, or forcible persuasion, which some critics charge has often bordered on brainwashing.
The organization had a phenomenal growth after Ikeda, the son of a Tokyo seaweed vendor, became its leader in 1960. Since then, membership has grown from 1.3 million to 10 million, and converts have been made in more than 30 different countries. To propagate its teachings, Soka Gakkai publishes a daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun (circ. 4.5 million), operates its own university, Soka Digaku, near Tokyo, and has built a temple as big as the Houston Astrodome at the foot of Mount Fuji.
In 1964 the organization founded the Komeito party in hopes of wiping out corruption in government. Although the party is now theoretically independent of Soka Gakkai, believers in the sect account for 90% of party membership. With 30 representatives in the lower house of the Diet and 24 in the upper house, Komeito has become a force to be reckoned with. Says Yoshiaki Masaki, the party policy board chairman: "We stand on the side of small people and work against the base of authority in Japan."
Faith and Power. Ikeda himself has moved more and more into the political arena recently. He called for re-establishing diplomatic relations with China long before most other Japanese leaders did, and has written a bestselling book about his impressions of Mao's revolution. In other books, lectures and articles, which are seriously and lengthily analyzed in the Tokyo press, Ikeda has advocated a world food bank, cutbacks in defense expenditures, and nuclear disarmament. His most consuming passion is the creation of an international people-to-people crusade against war. "Government leaders come and go," he explains. "Not the contact established and fostered for peace, people to people."
Ikeda lives modestly in a Japanese-style house with his wife and three children. By many of his followers, he is regarded as a reincarnation of Nichiren, and he obviously relishes the role. True to the teachings of Soka Gakkai, Ikeda equates faith with power—and he makes no bones about the fact that power is what his organization is after. Why not? Says he: "You have to have power to do anything at all meaningful."
