Daisaku Ikeda Quotes


One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.


Citations

Ikeda, Daisaku. The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions. Middleway Press, 2000, p. 75.

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Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda
  • Born: January 2, 1928
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Writer

Daisaku Ikeda is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. He has served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world's largest Buddhist lay organization, which declares approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, of whom more than 1.5 million reside outside of Japan as of 2012.:269