SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 141 - Oct 24, 2025

SGI Canada Newsletter

Issue no. 141

October 24, 2025

 

Welcome to the 141st 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.

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Encouragement 

Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s Editorial: “Encouraging and Supporting One Another Toward the Soka Gakkai’s Centennial” 

In his editorial in the November issue of Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study journal, Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada writes of the importance of always advancing: 

Fixing our sights on the future, living to the full in the present; we—as practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism, which focuses on the two existences of present and future—constantly summon up fresh hope, setting forth each new day with renewed resolve.

This month, the Soka Gakkai celebrates its 95th anniversary. Our founding president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, boldly proclaimed that the Soka Gakkai must “cast off the transient and reveal the true”—referring to the Buddhist concept of discarding one’s transient status and revealing one’s true identity or highest potential. It was his successors, second president Josei Toda and third president Daisaku Ikeda, who took up this impassioned challenge as a solemn vow.

Amid the upheaval of the first priesthood issue, at a meeting commemorating the Soka Gakkai’s 50th anniversary on November 18, 1980, President Ikeda declared: “The first act of the Soka Gakkai’s great people’s movement, dedicated to promoting peace and education based on the Mystic Law, has come to a close. Now the second act begins!” With these words, he called upon all members to advance with renewed determination toward our centennial.

Those words also marked President Ikeda’s own declaration of intent. From the very beginning of the following year, he set out on an intense schedule of worldwide travel and, in November, he initiated a major counteroffensive against the forces of authoritarianism and oppression embodied by the priesthood. Shoulder to shoulder with his dedicated fellow members, he launched a new era in our great people’s movement.

Inheriting the indomitable spirit of that struggle and striving to embody their mentor’s example, President Ikeda’s disciples of today, across the globe, are fulfilling their mission as genuine practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism—advancing proudly as the flag bearers of the great people’s movement of the Mystic Law. 

You’ll find the complete editorial in the December issue of New Century.  

News

SGI General Director Yoshiki Tanigawa attends Nationwide All Leaders Meeting 

SGI General Director Yoshiki Tanigawa recently joined with SGI Canada to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Ikeda Sensei’s first visit to Canada. During three busy days, Mr. Tanigawa held several guidance sessions with youth leaders, national leaders, staff, and members of the National Planning Committee and Board of Directors. He also spoke at the dedication of the new Peace Monument (see below) in Locust Grove, near Niagara Falls. The highlight of Mr. Tanigawa’s visit was a nationwide SGI Canada All-Leaders’ Meeting on Monday, October 13. 

Attended online by leaders from across Canada, the meeting marked the beginning of a new phase in SGI Canada’s development. Mr. Tanigawa worked closely with Ikeda Sensei, and he shared his own continuing efforts to understand Sensei’s guidance by chanting deeply and doing his best to fulfill his own mission. 

Mr. Tanigawa pointed to the passages in The New Human Revolution referring to Canada, and asked us to engrave Sensei’s guidance in our lives. He also spoke of the importance of “many in body, one in mind”.

The complete text of Mr. Tanigawa’s speech will be published in the December New Century.

SGI General Director Tanigawa (fifth from the left) at the SGI Canada
Nationwide All Leaders Meeting at the SGI Canada Culture Centre
in Toronto, October 13, 2025 (Photo by Antonio Choi)  

Peace Monument in Niagara 

During the All Leaders Meeting, SGI Canada General Director Glenn Turner announced that, working with the Niagara Parks Commission, SGI Canada has created a peace monument honouring Ikeda Sensei at Locust Grove, a park in Queenston Heights, in the Niagara region. 

We all know that Ikeda Sensei had a strong connection to Niagara Falls. He was able to visit the Falls twice, and he made many references to them in his writings as a symbol of the power in everyone’s life.

The monument is inscribed with the opening lines of The New Human Revolution, Volume 1. The inscription is engraved in English, French, Kanyen’kéha (or Mohawk) and Anishinaabemowin (or Ojibwe). In English, it reads: 

PEACE
Nothing is more precious than peace.
Nothing brings more happiness.
Peace is the most basic starting point
for the advancement of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

Peacebuilder, philosopher,
educator, author and poet

2025

 

Visitors from all over the world will see the monument and learn about our mentor, Ikeda Sensei. And this is a place where we, as members of SGI Canada, will be able to renew our eternal vow for kosen-rufu in Canada.

SGI General Director Tanigawa speaks at the dedication of the Peace Monument
at Locust Grove Park, October 13, 2025 (Photo by Antonio Choi) 

 

The Peace Monument at Locust Grove by SGI Canada (Photo by Antonio Choi)   

Disruptions to mail service

As the labour dispute at Canada Post continues, SGI Canada would like to remind you that you will be able to download your 2025 tax receipt from the SGI Canada website, if you choose to receive the paperless version.

Choosing to download the receipt yourself will allow SGI Canada to reduce its use of paper and devote more resources to activities for members. Once you choose to go paperless, you will no longer receive a receipt in the mail from SGI Canada.

In order to go paperless and download the receipt yourself:

• Sign in to your SGI Canada account at https://sgicinfo.org/portal/login. (If you do not have an SGI Canada account yet, please see the instructions below)
• On your personal information page, you will see a section titled Official Tax Receipt
• Click on the button in front of Your current option, and follow the instructions

You can change the way in which you receive your income tax receipt at any time between March 16 and December 30 each year.

Your tax receipt for 2025 will be available online by February 28, 2026.

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

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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 November 7, 2025. See you then!

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