Key Points The word Soka means creating value or value creation based on Tsunesaburo Makiguchis idea that value is found in beauty benefit and good In Buddhism to create value means to relieve suffering and bring happiness to ourselves and those around us ID: 904848
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Slide2Creating Value
SGI-USA November 2021 Discussion Meeting
Slide3Key Points
The word
Soka means “creating value” or “value creation,” based on Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s idea that value is found in “beauty, benefit and good.”
In Buddhism, to create value means to relieve suffering and bring happiness to ourselves and those around us.
Slide4Soka
Means “Value Creation”
“What’s the aim of your educational theory?” [asked
Josei Toda
.]
“In a word, to create value,” [answered
Tsunesaburo
Makiguchi
.] …
His cheeks flushed with excitement, Mr. Toda said: “Sensei, what if we take the first Chinese character of each of the words
sozo
(creation) and
kachi
(value) to make the word
Soka
, and call it ‘Value-Creating Education’ (
Soka
kyoikugaku
)?”
“Yes, that’s a good name!”
- Ikeda Sensei,
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace,
part 3, pp. 207–08
Slide5Creating Value Means Adding Benefit and Goodness to People’s Lives
The fundamental criterion for value, in Mr.
Makiguchi’s
view, is whether something adds to or detracts from, advances or hinders, the human condition. …
In his theory of value, Mr.
Makiguchi
states that the existence of religion is justified by the degree to which it relieves suffering and brings happiness to individuals (the value of [benefit]) and to societies (the value of goodness). In his unalloyed humanism, he asserted that people do not exist to serve religion; religion exists to serve people.
- Ikeda Sensei,
A New Way Forward,
pp.
75–81
Slide6We Can Create Value From Any Situation
Even what may seem at first sight to be an intensely negative situation—a difficult relationship, financial woes or poor health—can serve as an opportunity for the creation of positive value. A lifelong commitment to justice, for example, may arise from an early experience of having been wronged.
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https://www.sokaglobal.org/resources/study-materials/buddhist-concepts/creating-value.html
Slide7Brief Experience on Creating Value
Slide8Members of the SGI Embody the Spirit of Creating Value
We pray for the happiness of each person, encouraging them and taking action to help them, even while dealing with our own hardships or storms of destiny. That is why the
Soka
Gakkai has been able to build a beautiful, vibrant and harmonious realm of Buddhist humanism that could be described as a miracle—a realm imbued with the compassionate spirit of the Buddha.
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Ikeda Sensei, August 2021
Living Buddhism
, p.
60
Slide9Discussion Questions
What does creating value look like for you?
Can you share an experience when you were able to create great value from something negative?