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Esperia The age of wisdom
Faith is the key to triumph in life. For centuries the term elderly has been synonymous with a person rich in experience, repository of an irreplaceable wealth of knowledge and wisdom. In more recent times, the changes that have transformed our societies have accustomed us to a different image: weak, in need of care, scarcely useful, the person ahead in years is perceived essentially as a social problem. A fascinating path is outlined in this volume to restore the individual's right and ability to live a full and fulfilled life until the last, decisive moment.
€9,50
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Esperia Young people and the writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Daisaku Ikeda's encouragements addressed to young people, based on the writings of Nichiren Daishonin. "We are living in times of rapid change, which require the active participation of young people with their characteristic courage, vitality and foresight. Now is the time to step up and take responsibility for our grand movement for the realization of kosen rufu worldwide." These are the words with which SGI President Daisaku Ikeda opens his series of dialogues with Youth Division leaders thinking about the development of the kosen rufu movement. Several salient passages from Nichiren Daishonin's writings are examined, highlighting aspects of them that draw on the fundamentals of Buddhist teaching and emphasizing their relevance to contemporary reality.
€11,00
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Esperia The New Human Revolution vols. 21/22
The autobiographical novel of Daisaku Ikeda, president of SGI. 1975 is the founding year of the International Soka Gakkai. On January 26, representatives from more than fifty countries around the world gather on the island of Guam to celebrate the start of a worldwide peace movement. President Yamamoto is fresh from a trip to the United States during which he met with the U.N. secretary general and the U.S. secretary of state. It is the latest step in a series of initiatives he has taken to foster dialogue and détente among the world's great powers. The First World Peace Conference is an opportunity for Shin'ichi to reconfirm before all the assembled representatives the goal he was entrusted with by his mentor Josei Toda: "Mr. Toda, I will devote my whole life to realizing kosen rufu in the world in order to bring happiness and peace to all mankind." The Soka Gakkai president's people's diplomacy initiatives continue, and in April he leaves for a third trip to China, to be followed by another trip to the Soviet Union and Europe. The Soka Gakkai meanwhile continues to expand the scope of its activities. In July the city of Honolulu in the Hawai'i Islands hosts a major cultural festival that marks another new step in the kosen rufu movement around the world.
€20,00
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Esperia The pride of being golden pillars of kosen rufu
Dedicated to the men of the Soka family. Japan's ginkgo trees come from China. In the Japanese language they are also designated by some Chinese characters that literally mean "grandfather-grandchild tree," because if someone plants a ginkgo now, the fruit will be harvested by grandchildren. I read this explanation a long time ago and still cherish the memory of it. It seems to me that this name means, "I do not live for myself, but for the sake of the generations that will come after me. I will gather all my life force and accomplish great things!" When I look at a tall ginkgo tree, my thoughts go to the people of previous generations who planted it and cared for it.
€13,00
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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.
€13,00
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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
€16,50
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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.
€11,00
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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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Esperia The World of Gosho
Daisaku Ikeda addresses the themes expressed in Nichiren's writings. During his lifetime, Nichiren Daishonin wrote several treatises and numerous letters addressed to his disciples that express his deep conviction to carry out the Buddha's mandate to spread world peace through the realization of happiness for every living being. Ikeda and the heads of the Soka Gakkai Study Department address the themes expressed in Nichiren's writings by clarifying the concepts essential to realizing the Buddha's life state in today's world. Finally collected in one volume, these dialogues are an essential work for understanding Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism.
€29,00
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Esperia The legacy of the Basic Law of Life
Lecture by Daisaku Ikeda on the writings of Nichiren Daishonin. Daisaku Ikeda examines in this lecture the central theme of Buddhist philosophy, namely, the meaning of life and death and the overcoming and transformation of suffering. This, according to the author's commentary, is the essential motive that animates the Buddha's compassion and drives him to face all kinds of difficulties in order to lead living beings to supreme enlightenment. In the Lotus Sutra this desire of the Buddha is referred to as the "one great reason" (ichidaiji). Through a thorough examination of the scripture, the author lays out the philosophical principles that Nichiren believed were essential for his disciples' attainment of Buddhahood.
€13,00
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Esperia The opening of the eyes
Daisaku Ikeda's collection of Daisaku Ikeda's lectures on Nichiren Daishonin's beautiful and complex writing "Opening of the Eyes".The central theme of the treatise is succinctly expressed in the title, which Nichiren himself attributed to his work. By Opening the Eyes he intended to communicate first of all the fact that every person possesses within himself the supreme vital state of Buddhahood.In addition, the title expressly refers to the figure of Nichiren himself, who is the master who points out to all disciples the path to follow. From this point of view, the Daishonin makes clear in the treatise the significance of his relentless struggle against obstacles and persecution, backed by a vow that he was determined not to violate at all.By explaining in depth the significance of Nichiren's actions, Ikeda offers each person an opportunity to question the quality and depth of his or her own faith, to recognize in Nichiren's words a model of behavior to be inspired by on his or her own path toward human revolution.
€13,00
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Esperia The true magnitude of life
This volume presents three lectures devoted by Daisaku Ikeda to an in-depth examination of some of Nichiren Daishonin's writings. In-depth study of the Daishonin's writings is naturally of great importance in order to understand his most authentic message. Lessons contained in the book:The true aspect of all phenomenaThe inheritance of the fundamental law of lifeThe object of worship for observing the mind
€14,90
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