"'The Buddha's teaching begins with the recognition of human diversity. The humanism of the Lotus Sutra comes down to the te...

"When wisdom is functioning in our life, it has the effect of enabling us to overcome the ingrained perspectives of our habitual thi...

"When we realize the extent of the myriad interconnections which link us to all other life, we realize that our existence only beco...

"We can create value at each moment through our responses to our environment. Depending on our determination and direction, the valu...

"Compassion is often thought of as akin to pity, but whereas pity may be condescending, compassion springs from a sense of the equal...

The core philosophy of the SGI can be summed up in the concept of "human revolution." This is the idea that the self-motivated ...

One of the core concepts of Buddhism is "the oneness of life and its environment" (Jpn esho funi ). This describes the inseparab...

Buddhism identifies Ten Worlds--ten states or conditions of life that we experience within our lives, moving from one to another at any ...

Buddhism teaches that everything in the universe embodies the law of cause and effect. Modern science, of course, uses a similar fr...