SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 43 - January 5, 2022
SGI Canada Newsletter
Issue no. 43
January 5, 2022
Welcome to the 43rd 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.
President Ikeda’s New Year’s Message for 2022
Hearts Ever Youthful and Filled with Limitless Hope
Congratulations on the start of the Year of Youth and Dynamic Progress, overflowing with fresh, vibrant energy!
Today, as we scale a new summit of worldwide kosen-rufu toward our centennial in 2030, new members with deep karmic bonds are emerging joyously all around the globe, and our movement for peace, culture, and education continues to go from strength to strength.
Amid many serious challenges facing humanity, you, my treasured friends, have been chanting more strongly than ever for the safety and security of your societies and uniting more strongly than ever to take action for the happiness and well-being of others. Nichiren Daishonin, the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law, would surely applaud your efforts.
In times of difficulty, the way of Soka is to summon forth the “heart of a lion king”1and challenge our situation based on the “strategy of the Lotus Sutra”2—that is, faith in the Mystic Law. By transforming our karma into mission and winning over all obstacles, we demonstrate the great beneficial power of the Mystic Law. We make the place where we are right now the stage for an ever-unfolding drama of joy and dynamic progress.
Full message published in February 2022 New Century.
1 WND-1, 302.
SGI President Ikeda’s Editorial: “Each District Is an Ocean of Blessings and Wisdom”
In his January editorial for Daibyakurenge (the Soka Gakkai study magazine), SGI President Daisaku Ikeda praises our districts, which he describes as “oceans of blessings and wisdom”:
We must never forget that the district is the starting point for fresh dynamic progress in our movement.
In this age when the cold eyes of mistrust and prejudice callously wound and divide so many, our compassionate eyes and warm encouragement as Soka Gakkai members are all the more important.
In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, the Daishonin states: “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo has these two elements of blessings and wisdom” (OTT, 218).
Chanting with a vow to compassionately spread the Mystic Law, let’s fill our lives to overflowing with blessings and wisdom. Uniting with our men’s and women’s district leaders, let’s strengthen our bonds of trust in an atmosphere of warmth and open heartedness, and create unending waves of kosen-rufu in this Year of Youth and Dynamic Progress!
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 21, 2022. See you then!