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Daibyakurenge Editorial

01 Mar, 2026

Shine as Golden Pillars of Society!

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01 Mar, 2026

The following is Soka Gakkai president Minoru Harada’s editorial published in the Daibyakurenge, the monthly study journal of the Soka Gakkai.

In 1276, Nichiren Daishonin wrote to the Ikegami brothers at a time when they were enduring great hardship, encouraging them with these words: “Put into flames, a rock simply turns to ashes, but gold becomes pure gold.” (WND-1, pg 497)

Seven-and-a-half centuries later, that spirit lives on. Like the Ikegami brothers before them, the members of the Soka Gakkai men’s division shine as steadfast golden pillars of kosen-rufu, of their local communities and of society at large – turning...

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