Universal Respect: The Great Path To Peacе
This year, 2016, marks the 35th T year since the Soak Gakkai International (SGI) began activities in support of the United Nations as an accredited non-governmental organisation. All people have the right to live in happiness. The prime objective of the Soak Gakkai movement is to forge an expanding solidarity of ordinary citizens committed to protecting that right and, in this way, to rid the world of needless suffering. The movement's activities in support of the UN are a natural and necessary expression of this. The foundation of Buddhism is a belief in the inherent dignity of all people. West rive to avoid judging a person's worth or potential on the basis of present appearance and instead, focus on the inherent dignity of each individual. In this way, we seek to inspire in each other the confidence to live with hope from this day forward, bathed in the light of that dignity The example of one's own renewed determination can powerfully ignite the flame of courage in others. Encouraging and being encouraged... Through this back and forth, the pledge made by one person inspires another's pledge, arousing the power of hope that enables people to remain unbowed even in the face of great difficulty. In regard to critical voices asserting that it is impossible to save everyone, MK Gandhi told his grandson: "On those occasions, it's a matter of whether one touches the life of an individual. We can't look after thousands of people. But if we can touch one person's life and save that life, that is the great change that we can effect." As present-day heirs to this spirit, the members of the SGI have worked to empathetically share the sufferings and joys of the people in our lives and to advance together with them in a growing network of life-to-life bonds. Buddhism views the world as a web of relationality in which nothing can be completely disassociated from anything else. When we understand this and can sense in the depths of our being the fact that we live that our existence is made possible-within this web of relatedness, we see clearly that there is no happiness that only we enjoy, no suffering that afflicts only others. In this sense, we ourselves-in the place where we are at this moment become the starting point for a chain reaction of positive transformation. Ware able not only to resolve our personal challenges but also to MA contribution to moving our immeenvironment and even human soca better direction. I am convinced that when we, as individuals, use friendship and emote recast the world map in our hear world around us will also begin to dialogue is essential if we are build a world in which no one is behind. Sharing time and space tog in dialogue... The friendship and nurtured through the committed of this process can form the basis solidarity of ordinary citizens w to resolve global issues and bring being a peaceful world. (The writer is president, SokaGakkai International. This is an excerpt from his 2016 Peace Proра'Universal Respect for Human Dig The Great Path to Peace'.)
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Universal Respect: The Great Path To Peacе
This year, 2016, marks the 35th T year since the Soak Gakkai International (SGI) began activities in support of the United Nations as an accredited non-governmental organisation. All people have the right to live in happiness. The prime objective of the Soak Gakkai movement is to forge an expanding solidarity of ordinary citizens committed to protecting that right and, in this way, to rid the world of needless suffering. The movement's activities in support of the UN are a natural and necessary expression of this. The foundation of Buddhism is a belief in the inherent dignity of all people. West rive to avoid judging a person's worth or potential on the basis of present appearance and instead, focus on the inherent dignity of each individual. In this way, we seek to inspire in each other the confidence to live with hope from this day forward, bathed in the light of that dignity The example of one's own renewed determination can powerfully ignite the flame of courage in others. Encouraging and being encouraged... Through this back and forth, the pledge made by one person inspires another's pledge, arousing the power of hope that enables people to remain unbowed even in the face of great difficulty. In regard to critical voices asserting that it is impossible to save everyone, MK Gandhi told his grandson: "On those occasions, it's a matter of whether one touches the life of an individual. We can't look after thousands of people. But if we can touch one person's life and save that life, that is the great change that we can effect." As present-day heirs to this spirit, the members of the SGI have worked to empathetically share the sufferings and joys of the people in our lives and to advance together with them in a growing network of life-to-life bonds. Buddhism views the world as a web of relationality in which nothing can be completely disassociated from anything else. When we understand this and can sense in the depths of our being the fact that we live that our existence is made possible-within this web of relatedness, we see clearly that there is no happiness that only we enjoy, no suffering that afflicts only others. In this sense, we ourselves-in the place where we are at this moment become the starting point for a chain reaction of positive transformation. Ware able not only to resolve our personal challenges but also to MA contribution to moving our immeenvironment and even human soca better direction. I am convinced that when we, as individuals, use friendship and emote recast the world map in our hear world around us will also begin to dialogue is essential if we are build a world in which no one is behind. Sharing time and space tog in dialogue... The friendship and nurtured through the committed of this process can form the basis solidarity of ordinary citizens w to resolve global issues and bring being a peaceful world. (The writer is president, SokaGakkai International. This is an excerpt from his 2016 Peace Proра'Universal Respect for Human Dig The Great Path to Peace'.)
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The views expressed in the Article above are Daisaku Ikeda and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Daisaku Ikeda and Speaking Tree , Times of India