Southeast Zone Soka Spirit 

UPCOMING! Soka Spirit Conference in Raleigh, NC, March 24-25, 2007

Conference Application here

Recommended study material for discussion
 
Handouts: Recommended Online Resources (Word document)
Topics for Discussion Meetings (Word document)

The sokaspirit.org website was created by SGI-USA and has tons of great study material. Especially:

Monthly Study at
http://sokaspirit.org/study/monthly_study/introduction.shtml

President Ikeda's words on Soka Spirit -- visit 
http://sokaspirit.org/about/whatsnew/newsletter/words001.shtml
http://sokaspirit.org/about/whatsnew/newsletter/words002.shtm
http://sokaspirit.org/about/whatsnew/newsletter/words003.shtml

Shin Yatomi's Buddhism in a New Light -- visit 
http://sokaspirit.org/study/new_light/archive.shtml to see all the chapters in it.

Some Frequently Asked Questions about Soka Spirit are answered athttp://sokaspirit.org/faq/more.shtml

Danny Nagashima on Soka Spirit is at
http://sokaspirit.org/study/monthly_study/reference/danny.shtml

Matilda Buck on Soka Spirit is at
http://sokaspirit.org/study/monthly_study/reference/matilda.shtml


The Sokaspirit.com website is managed by a San Francisco memberand has lots of good material. In particular:

Reform priest Matsuoka's Darknes Before Dawn at
http://sokaspirit.com/content/darkness-before-dawn/index.html

Matsuoka's letter of inquiry to Nikken at
http://sokaspirit.com/content/matsuoka/query1-5.html

Q&A of the month on Soka Spirit at
http://sokaspirit.com/content/questions-and-answers.html
 

The Southeast Zone Youth created this website April 24: Day of Victory at
http://www.gakkaionline.net/apr24/

To refute some of the scandalous allegations about the Gakkai, visit 
http://justiceproved.com/
http://3justice.com/
http://www.nichiren.com/ (the reform priests' website)

more to come
 

Southeast Zone Soka Spirit Conference

Richard Yoshimachi's presentation on "The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life"
(Powerpoint file -- very large)

Youth Division presentation on the Three Powerful Enemies (pdf)
This is material for April 2006 discussion meetings.

The youth presentation has 19 pages, with one slide per page and various quotes from SGI publications, and with references listed.  On the last page are three suggested questions for discussion.

A few suggestions for presentation and discussion of this material follow. Due to the large amount of material and the relatively brief time available in discussion meetings, it is recommended that only the following sections be used in discussion meetings:

  1. Section 1 - Introductory slides: #3-#6  -and- Section 3 (how to break through fundamental darkness) slides:  #13 - #18
  2. Presenters/facilitators of the material are recommended to read through it prior to the meeting to become familiar with the concepts covered therein. To make the points on each page, it is not necessary to use all quotes.
  3. Further questions regarding the material, please contact Shinjiro Sato (shinjiro@ufl.edu; 239-560-3673).


Pictures from the Conference . . .