SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 139 - Sep 26, 2025
SGI Canada Newsletter
Issue no. 139
September 26, 2025
Welcome to the 139th issue of the SGI Canada Newsletter, a bi-weekly summary of news, upcoming events and encouragement. If you are not subscribing to the SGI Canada Newsletter, you may do so by clicking on the button below. Subscriptions are free of charge, and the SGI Canada Newsletter will be emailed directly to you.
Encouragement
Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s Editorial: “Illuminating and Manifesting Our True Nature on the Stage of Our Mission”
In his editorial in the October issue of Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study journal, Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada reminds us that kosen-rufu is founded on the mentor-disciple relationship:
Life is a grand drama and each of us is the protagonist, striving to fulfil our great mission of worldwide kosen-rufu.
President Daisaku Ikeda lived as a true protagonist, embodying the noble spirit of the mentor-disciple relationship to the highest degree. When he took his first step on the path of worldwide kosen-rufu on October 2, 1960, he carried in the inner pocket of his suit jacket a photo of his mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, while Toda’s final words—“The world is your true stage”—resounded in his heart. At the very core of this great human drama was the shared struggle of mentor and disciple.
The expansion of kosen-rufu in every country and community has always begun with one courageous individual—someone who stood up alone with the vow, “together with my mentor.” Nichiren Daishonin described the start of his own great struggle as “the single speck of dust that marks the beginning of Mount Sumeru or the single drop of dew that spells the start of the great ocean” (WND-1, 672). In that same spirit, our fellow members throughout the world have become such “single specks of dust” and “single drops of dew”—protagonists of kosen-rufu who have boldly opened new paths. Their shared struggle is a “wonderful story [that will endure into the future]” (WND-1, 499).
You’ll find the complete editorial in the November issue of New Century.
News
President Harada Issues Statement on Creating a World Without War
On August 1 2025, Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada issued a statement marking 80 years since the end of World War II, titled “Creating a Wave of Change Toward a Century Without War”.
President Harada’s statement is grounded in the determination that no one on this planet should have to endure the horrors of war. He stresses that concern for the suffering of innocent civilians underpins the Soka Gakkai’s commitment to peace.
For President Harada’s complete statement (in English, Spanish and Chinese), please visit: https://www.sokaglobal.org/contact-us/media-room/statements/creating-a-wave-of-change-toward-century-without-war.html
Have you set up your online account yet?
SGI Canada members now have access to an online portal in which they can create their own personal SGI Canada accounts, subscribe to publications and make secure online donations.
Members can also use their online account to read the English and French-language publications to which they subscribe, and access their tax receipts and personal information.
How to set up your online account:
- Go to the SGI Canada website at www.sgicanada.organd click on the Online Portal button near the top right corner of your screen.
- Click on I have not created an online accountand then Submit
- Fill out the personal information fields and click on Submit
- You will receive an email from accounting@sgicinfo.org . The email will confirm your username and password (which you can change once you log into the site the first time). For assistance with setting up your account, please contact support@sgicinfo.org.
- Once your username and password have been confirmed, you will be able to log into the online portal from the SGI Canada website at any time.
Many SGI Canada members have already registered. We hope you will also take advantage of this convenient method of making online donations, subscribing to SGI Canada publications, and reading them online.
Upcoming events
October 5 - SGI Canada Day Commemorative Meetings
On October 5, we will be celebrating the 65th anniversary of Ikeda Sensei’s first visit to Canada. Kosen-rufu in Canada began with President Ikeda’s arrival in Toronto in October 1960 and his meeting with Elizabeth Akiko Izumi, who was not a Soka Gakkai member at the time. At commemorative meetings and other special events across the country, we will mark this anniversary by showing how much Canadian members continue to grow and flourish with Sensei’s guidance and vision in their hearts.
In “A Rainbow over Niagara”, President Ikeda writes:
I hope you’ll spend each day
Arousing trust and confidence in everyone.
Steadiness will prove superior to undue haste;
However inconspicuous,
Each sure step
Constructs a firm foundation for the future.[1]
[1] A Rainbow over Niagara, SGI Canada, 2011, p. 9.
Please contact your area or regional leaders to find out what is planned in your location.
Calendar for October and November
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Throughout October |
Special SGI Canada Fund |
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October 5 |
SGI Canada Day Commemorative Meetings, celebrating the 65th anniversary of Ikeda Sensei’s first visit to Canada |
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October 12 |
SGI Canada Day |
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October 13 |
Nationwide All-Leaders’ Meeting |
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Throughout November |
District General Meetings |
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November 2 |
Soka Gakkai Founding Day Commemorative Meeting |
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November 18 |
Soka Gakkai Founding Day |
New Century - September 2025
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We hope you found this newsletter beneficial. Please email your questions or comments to contact@sgicanada.org. Please note that the next SGI Canada Newsletter will appear on October 10, 2025. See you then!