Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 22:21 | | 
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‘The poetic spirit has the power to retune and reconnect a discordant, divided world,’ writes SGI President Daisaku Ikeda, a prolific and widely published poet.
He urges us to reawaken the poet inside ourselves, saying, ‘Modern civilization will be healthy only when the poetic spirit regains its rightful place.’
Published on Monday, 16 February 2009 19:00 | | |
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You know you are worth it when you have a massive celestial object named after you! And you can - just follow the link and spend all your spare time sifting through 250,000 galaxies and classifying them. Not feeling like Einstein today? Don't worry - it can be done by a six-year-old!
Published on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:48 | | |
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Published on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:10 | | |
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Every year SGI President Daisaku Ikeda publishes a Peace Proposal which explores the interrelation between core Buddhist concepts and the diverse challenges global society faces in the effort to realise peace and human security.
Here’s another chance to read his 2010 proposal, ‘Towards a New Era of Value Creation’.
Published on Thursday, 23 December 2010 00:00 | | |
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During the Christmas of 1914 soldiers along the Western Front stopped fighting to sing carols and – famously – even to play football together.
‘On Christmas Day after service in the trenches, we went halfway and we shook hands, and had a fine crack with them. Quite a number of them speak English. I got ones autograph and he got mine, and I exchanged a button with another, and exchanged cigs and got cigars galore. Altogether we spent a very pleasant two hours with them, and found them a nice lot of fellows’, reported a young soldier.
Published on Friday, 03 July 2009 19:00 | |
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Most of us meet with Failure in the course of our lives – along with its best friends Guilt, Despair and Shame.
Bruce Grierson reports on a new theory rapidly gaining ground which argues that adversity, setbacks and even trauma may actually be necessary for people to be happy, successful and fulfilled.
Published on Thursday, 09 December 2010 20:21 | | |
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Simon Maddrell was unable to get a job in the aid sector — so he just went ahead and set up his own charity.
Now he supports Kenyan farmers by building sand dams, a low cost, low tech solution to the world's water crisis, which Simon describes as ‘quite simply, a miracle’.