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SGI-Asia Study Department Leader Visits Malaysia
From May 19 to May 20, SGI-Asia Study Department Leader Masaaki Morinaka was in Malaysia to conduct Gosho study sessions with SGM leaders. He studied SGI President Ikeda’s lectures on "The Three Kinds of Treasures" and "The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood". He also relayed a message from President Ikeda, calling on SGM members to put into practice the mentor-disciple spirit and to build a youthful SGM.
On May 19, 500 SGM Youth Division leaders gathered at the SGM Culture Centre to study President Ikeda’s lecture on the Gosho "The Three Kinds of Treasures", which is found in SGI President Ikeda’s "The Teachings for Victory" series. Mr Morinaka pointed out that the core of President Ikeda’s idea of the Gosho was humanism. Nichiren Buddhism opens up the unlimited potentials of human beings to save others in the Latter Day of the Law. He stressed that after taking faith in this religion, the victory for the believers is evident in the "revolution of the heart" as well as the accumulation of "treasures of the heart."
Mr Morinaka concluded that by cultivating "a network of compassion", we can change the present world for the better. It is also through practising Nichiren Buddhism that anyone can change for the better.
The next evening, May 20, Mr Morinaka shared with about 1,400 SGM leaders from all over the country on the vital points of the Gosho "The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood". The lecture was based on President Ikeda’s series of lectures entitled "The Hope-filled Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".
He also pointed out that an important question which arose in the course of Buddhist propagation was, "Who will be the one to save humankind in the Latter Day of the Law?" At the end of the study, he came to the conclusion that Nichiren Buddhism is the religion that would save humankind.
Finally Mr Morinaka urged the members to reflect on the pledge of the three founding mentors, saying that the reason three generations of mentors and disciples could be born during the same period of time is due to having a common pledge.
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