SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 147 - January 16, 2026
SGI Canada Newsletter
Issue no. 147
January 16, 2025
Welcome to the 147th 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
SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s lecture: “Engaging in Dialogue That Transcends All Differences”
In a speech given on October 11, 2001 and broadcast during the Soka Gakkai Headquarters leaders meeting on November 16, 2025, President Ikeda spoke about the Soka Gakkai's efforts around the world to establish dialogue based on friendship:
We are promoting dialogue for peace throughout the world. We are conducting dialogue with people of different cultures and traditions.
The Soka Gakkai’s movement for peace is striving through dialogue to establish the philosophy of respect for the dignity of life as the spirit of the age in the 21st century. The dialogues you engage in each day are noble and important. I hope you will continue them with supreme confidence and pride.
I hope you will compose “poems of friendship” in your own cherished communities.
No doubt the situation of each community is unique, but as long as you have courage, wisdom, and sincerity, you can turn everyone and everything into an ally through the “art of humanity.” I hope you will all become this sort of “great artist” overflowing with the spirited determination to build bridges of trust and peace in your communities.
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The important thing is to continue moving forward with the determination: “Whatever happens, I will keep going! I will challenge myself! And I will win!” This is the mark of a true champion.
Buddhism is about winning. Therefore, the correct course is striving to emerge victorious without fail. Let us win in all our struggles and live lives of great satisfaction, so that we can declare with real feeling, “Ah, that was fun!”
From the Buddhist perspective, we are all family forever, throughout the three existences. The Daishonin writes: “You should always talk with each other to free yourselves from the sufferings of birth and death and attain the pure land of Eagle Peak, where you will nod to each other and speak in one mind” (WND-1, 909).
You’ll find the complete lecture in the December 2025 issue of New Century.
News
Dialogue and Daimoku Campaign
SGI Canada has set three big goals for 2026:
- 20,000 Buddhist dialogues
- Two billion daimoku
- Life-to-life connections, every day
To help keep us focused on achieving our goals throughout the year, we have begun a Dialogue and Daimoku Campaign.
Whenever we talk about Buddhism or about SGI with someone who is not an SGI member, we can register that dialogue online. In the same way, whenever we have completed an hour or more of daimoku, we can record the number of hours online.
You can record your dialogues and daimoku by clicking on this button:
If you are having trouble logging in, you can ask someone else in your district to enter the information for you.
SGI Canada will keep track of the total number of dialogues and hours of daimoku. You can see how many dialogues and how much chanting has been done so far, across the entire country by clicking on this button:
An FAQ page will soon be available. In the meantime, please send your questions to contact@sgicanada.org.
Daimoku charts and altar cards
To support your chanting and determinations for victory in 2026, we invite you to download and print daimoku charts and altar cards from our website.
You can find the daimoku charts and altar cards at sgicanada.org. Simply go to Activities and click on Daimoku Chart or Altar Cards. You can download and print daimoku charts and prayer cards from this page.
Daimoku Chart: https://www.sgicanada.org/activities/daimoku-chart
Altar Cards: https://www.sgicanada.org/activities/altar-cards
Upcoming events
Calendar for January and February
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Throughout January |
Dialogue and daimoku campaign |
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Throughout February |
Youth-led activities in each district to commemorate Kosen-rufu Day (March 16) |
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Throughout February |
Leaders’ Training (in some regions and areas) |
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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 January 30, 2026. See you then!