SGI Soka Gakkai International
For SGI members, Buddhism is a practical philosophy aimed at awakening people to the limitless potential and value of their own lives. Practicing Buddhism brings about a positive transformation in the depths of an individual's life, transforming fear into courage, deluded impulses into wisdom and egotism into compassion.
Buddhism begins with individuals deciding to take responsibility for their own lives, first reforming themselves and taking action to improve their immediate surroundings and relations, and then gradually extending their wisdom, courage and compassion into a wider sphere.
Materialists claim that the physical or material world which can be measured and touched is the only "reality," whereas some spiritual traditions see the physical as mere illusion--or something inherently corrupt which exists in order to be transcended, and the spiritual as the ultimate truth. more...
