Our organization exists to mobilize the spirit of human goodness—people’s desire to help and benefit others—and use it to create great value. You might say that the Soka Gakkai is a body or organism that took form and came to life specifically to bring together the basic goodness of people’s hearts, to further develop that goodness and strengthen it.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, pp. 115-26
Daisaku Ikeda
Practicing Nichiren Buddhism enables us to become as strong as we possibly can. To live in such a way that we can perceive everything in terms of faith and are always determined to overcome everything through faith means to walk the path to eternal happiness.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 204
Daisaku Ikeda
When we dedicate our lives to kosen-rufu, overcoming painful suffering and perseveringin faith, we, too, can actualize the principle of casting off the transient and revealing the true. As ordinary people, we can bring forth the same life state of Buddhahood as Nichiren Daishonin.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 155
Daisaku Ikeda