This volume contains various excerpts from President Ikeda's writings, selected from a vast array of sources covering many decades, including speeches, essays, lectures, and dialogues. Sharing his profound knowledge, enriched by his personal experience, Daisaku Ikeda outlines the distinctive features of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, a teaching that allows all people to manifest the inherent Buddha nature in their lives, leading them toward absolute happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda also guides us to understand that individual happiness is closely linked to that of others and clarifies the importance of being happy in life as well as at the time of death.
«Even today, I vividly recall the conversation I had with my mentor, Josei Toda, on the day I met him for the first time: "There is something I would like you to explain to me" [...] "Of course, ask whatever you want." "Sir, what is the correct way to live?" With strong conviction, he introduced me to Nichiren Daishonin's philosophy of life, encouraging me to study and practice it with youthful energy, cultivating noble ideals. From that moment on, I have relentlessly pursued the path of mentor and disciple.»
Daisaku Ikeda, from the Foreword.
Revised and updated edition of the book previously published under the title What is Happiness
