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
song heart limits
Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
powerful reality rights
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
passion light hopeful
Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.
art perfect effort
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
fiber nerves moments
The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.
jewels treasure dignity
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
creating people leader
World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
powerful ambition hopeful
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
dream hopeful missions
Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.
optimism hopeful pessimism
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.
appreciation gratitude gratitude-and-appreciation
Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.
real struggle thinking
If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.
stars moon mind
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.
spring feet trying
Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.