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Esperia Treasures of the future, happy parents happy children
What are the key points for raising happy and peaceful children? The most important are the life force, wisdom and love of parents. Treasures of the Future offers all parents essential guidance for developing themselves as they face the challenges and concerns that accompany raising children. SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's warm suggestions, based on a broad outlook on life, are solid guidelines for building happy families. Raising children is the oldest activity for humankind, since the dawn of time it has never stopped; at the same time, for each person it is always the first time. Therefore, I believe that if predecessors told their experiences frankly, they would naturally form a supportive chorus for young people and help them develop courage, wisdom and confidence. This is the reflection from which this book, which is the result of a series of dialogues held with a number of mothers who are also leaders of the Soka Gakkai, was born. - Daisaku Ikeda
€7,00
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Esperia Gongyo International - large
Booklet in international phonetics for daily practice of gongyo Contains a brief introduction to Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism and a translation of the passages from the Lotus Sutra that are part of the gongyo ritual. COVER COLORS AND MATERIALS MAY DIFFER AS A RESULT OF VARIOUS REPRINTS
€3,00
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Esperia Gongyo International - small
Booklet in international phonetics for daily practice of gongyo Contains a brief introduction to Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism and a translation of the passages from the Lotus Sutra that are part of the gongyo ritual. COVER COLORS AND MATERIALS MAY DIFFER AS A RESULT OF VARIOUS REPRINTS
€1,50
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Esperia Gongyo Italian - large
Booklet in Italian phonetics for the daily gongyo practice of the International Soka Gakkai Contains a brief introduction to Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism and a translation of the passages from the Lotus Sutra that are part of the Gongyo ritual. COVER COLORS AND MATERIALS MAY DIFFER AS A RESULT OF VARIOUS REPRINTS
€3,00
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Esperia Gongyo Italian - small
Booklet in Italian phonetics for the daily practice of gongyo Contains a brief introduction to Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism and a translation of the passages from the Lotus Sutra that are part of the gongyo ritual. COVER COLORS AND MATERIALS MAY DIFFER AS A RESULT OF VARIOUS REPRINTS
€1,50
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Esperia The treasure of the heart
A collection of passages from the writings of Nichiren Daishonin, accompanied by beautiful illustrations, which are presented to offer encouragement to cultivate faith day by day.The collection has 52 sentences, one for each week of the year, and is intended as an opportunity to explore some of the most famous passages from the Gosho. Re-reading the same words, a few days or longer periods later, it often happens that we catch new nuances and look for a direct connection to our life experiences. The Gosho for every follower of Nichiren's teaching is an authentic point of reference, a beacon that illuminates our life path and sustains us in sad or difficult moments as well as in happy circumstances.
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Esperia The strength of hope
A great geographical and cultural distance separates Japan from Argentina. However, Daisaku Ikeda, president of the International Soka Gakkai, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, have managed to build a deep friendship, based on common affinities and values, in defense of human rights without borders or discrimination of any kind. Ikeda and Pérez Esquivel engage in dialogue on topics such as solidarity, the wisdom of peoples and women, resistance to totalitarianism, the search for effective action and the appreciation of different cultures, with the aim of finding a way to peace. The authors, through words and life examples, seek to convey to young people the value of energetic and passionate commitment to peace, hope and justice for their peoples and for all peoples on Earth.
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Esperia The New Human Revolution vols. 19/20
The autobiographical novel of Daisaku Ikeda, president of SGI. 1974: Shin'ichi Yamamoto's initiatives to spread a culture of peace bear fruit, and the kosen rufu movement begins to be understood even where it was previously viewed with suspicion. President Yamamoto travels to Panama, then to Peru, where he receives the keys to the city of Lima, and to California, where he is awarded honorary citizenship of San Diego. In Okinawa, the youth of the Soka Gakkai collect the experiences of World War II survivors, a valuable testimony that will serve as a warning for the future about the tragic consequences of the war.1974 is also the year Shin'ichi Yamamoto travels to China and the Soviet Union. The opening of friendly relations between the universities and his efforts to establish sincere dialogues are the beginning of a path toward friendship and trust between nations long hostile to each other. Toward the end of the year, President Yamamoto is back in Beijing, where a historic meeting is held that was wholeheartedly desired by China's seriously ill Premier Zhou Enlai. Yamamoto also later meets with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to present his proposals aimed at international détente.
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Esperia The most valuable asset
Buddhism and the art of medicine. Illness is one of the four sufferings of life that, according to Buddhism, unite all human beings. Man has always been afraid of it, as it impairs the ability to live life to the fullest, but Buddhist scriptures state that illnesses stimulate the spirit of seeking the "Way." In order to teach an attitude to challenge diseases on the basis of faith as well as medical knowledge, in this volume Daisaku Ikeda discusses with some experts in the field the prevention and treatment of major diseases that afflict human beings of our time. "Health is not a simple absence of disease. Being healthy involves constant challenge and constant creativity. A fruitful life, a truly healthy life is constantly advancing, always opening up new scenarios. An indomitable spirit gives the power to keep moving forward. "Daisaku Ikeda
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Esperia Karma
An introduction to the concept of "karma," another way of saying mission. It is common practice to blame "karma" for everything negative that happens in our lives, forgetting that even positive things are our own karma, "earned" action after action, word after word, thought after thought. Negative karma can disappear like dew in the sun if, as an Altic scripture says, we meditate on the true entity of our life. Not only that, it can be the engine of our human revolution if we turn it into our mission.
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Esperia Buddhism, the first millennium
This volume addresses the development of Buddhism after the death of its founder Shakyamuni. Starting from the first council, organized by Shakyamuni's direct disciples, which brought order to the complex system of the Buddha's teachings, to the birth of the Mahayana movement, whose origins remain ill-defined. Daisaku Ikeda examines the scant historical information that has come down to us and interprets it with his characteristic originality and insight. He expounds on the essential tenets of the Lotus Sutra, the fundamental scripture of the Great Vehicle, and traces the events of some of the leading figures in the history of Buddhism: King Ashoka and the philosophers Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu, who contributed to its establishment as one of the world's major religions.
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Esperia Life of the Buddha
An interpretive biography of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni. Daisaku Ikeda, a modern-day Buddhist leader and thinker, attempts to trace, using the scant biographical information regarding Gautama Siddharta, known as Shakyamuni or the Buddha, the motivations that drove a man who had at his disposal every wealth and earthly privilege, to abandon palaces, princely title, wife and child. He did so, probably, in reaction to discovering the fundamental sufferings of life, which are not spared even to those who enjoy a privileged existence. Ikeda retraces the young man's steps in search of the enlightenment that can liberate human beings from all constraints of suffering, engaging in a search based on scarce sources and his own experience as a Buddhist practitioner. Can what prompted Gautama Siddhartha almost three thousand years ago to undertake a very hard struggle in order to overcome the impermanence of life and find the supreme happiness represented by "awakening," or Buddhahood, still be valid today? Can his message, which has changed the lives of millions of people over the centuries throughout the East, inspire the West as well? The author, and we with him, believes so and helps us understand what the essence of the "Awakened One's" enlightenment is. The original title of the work, My Vision of Shakyamuni, suggests the spirit in which the author approached the historical Buddha, who lived in India some twenty-five centuries ago. Data on his life are in fact very few, and the only sources are texts handed down for centuries only in oral form. Reconstructing the life of the "Sage of the Shakyas" therefore means trying to go far beyond what hagiographic reports and accounts hand down to us, and making a considerable effort to interpret the many important choices Shakyamuni made during his lifetime. Ikeda makes this journey on the basis of his own experience as a contemporary religious leader, and it is precisely because of this role that he guides us to understand what is the deeper meaning of the "Awakened One's" enlightenment.
€11,00
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