Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikedais a Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and anti-nuclear activist. He served as the third president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International, the world's largest Buddhist lay organization, with approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and regions...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth2 January 1928
CountryJapan
Daisaku Ikeda quotes about
destiny what-matters moments
We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
victory path where-you-are
The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
strong believe wrath
Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.
opposites goal realization
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
decision limits cases
In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.
life single peace
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
peace advancement starting
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
winning victory path
It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
strong mean trying
True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
spiritual ideas profound
The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.
buddhist struggle character
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
genuine-happiness happy-person persons
A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
teamwork effort culture
Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.
believe peaceful missions
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.