Mentor and desiple

1. Significance of July Month
July 3rd
1945 : President Toda
was released from
prison.
July 3rd
1957 : Ikeda Sensei
was arrested, for false
charges

2. Mentor Disciple
Relationship

3. Mentor Is a person who has devoted his life to understand
and apply the principles of Nicherin Daishonin’s
Buddhism to become Happy and enable others to
bring joy to their life through this philosophy .
Disciple Path of the Disciple is the Unceasing gratitude,
towards the Unflagging
Determination of his/her mentor
Relationship This is an Eternal relationship as it exists from the
remote past
Is a heart to heart bond and trust between the mentor
and the disciple

4. Path of the Disciple is the Unceasing gratitude,
towards the Unflagging determination of his/her
mentor
A Perfect Disciple

5. • Trust
• Compassion
• Commitment
Relationship among each other

6. Both the Mentor & Disciple Joyfully Exerting for the
Supreme Cause
Perfect Bond of Mentor & Disciple

7. A Single man’s compassion to
propagate this law of Happiness
Mentor Disciple

8. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Josei Toda
Daisaku Ikeda

9. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
EVIL PEOPLE ARE WEAK SO THEY COME TOGETHER. SOKA
GAKKAI IS SO THAT GOOD PEOPLE CAN ALSO COME
TOGETHER AND CREATE VALUE

10. Rebuilding Soka Gakkai
“WHEN THE LION KING…ROARS, THE HUNDRED CUBS WILL THEN FEEL
EMBOLDENED, AND THE HEADS OF THOSE OTHER BEASTS AND BIRDS OF
PREY WILL BE SPLIT INTO SEVEN PIECES”

11. Josei Toda
THE LION GOES ALONE ON HIS THOUSAND MILES JOURNEY. HE SEEKS NO COMPANION.
I TOO WILL GO – TOWARDS KOSEN RUFU, I WILL WEATHER THE STORM, I WILL FIGHT
OBSTACLES AND DEMONS, I WILL RIDE THE RAGING WAVES AND I WILL FORGE ON, NO
MATTER WHAT. I WILL GO , I WILL FIGHT.

12. Daisaku Ikeda
WHEN A BODHISATTVA OF THE EARTH EMERGES,
HE EMERGES JOYFULLY, HE KNOWS NO FEAR

13. 51 Years of ..Life based on Mentor &
Disciple relation ship
1957 2008

14. Passing the
Batton of Kousen
Rufu
in the hands of
Promising Youth

15. Embarking on the worldwide
propagation of Kosen-rufu
Making the Mentor’s wish as his own

16. Mentor Disciple Relationship
• Cultivate the spirit of compassion as our mentors to make others happy
• Inculcate the stand alone spirit, have courage to say NO to wrong and
stand against injustice
• Be in Unity with my fellow members in faith
• Directly connect with my mentor on daily basis
• To understand how mentor has practiced, we have to thoroughly
read Sensei’s writings (ie HR, NHR’s V.C, Gosho) and apply the
same in our daily life
• Have expansive state of life
• Approach seniors in faith to have deeper understanding of our faith
• Finally developing the same life condition of our mentor, is nothing but
attaining Buddha hood

17. “A great revolution of
character in just a
single individual will
help achieve a
change in the destiny
of society, and
further, will enable a
change in the destiny
of mankind”