Fighting for Peace: Dr.Daisaku Ikeda and Dr Prabhakarababu

Dr Prabhakarababu, Tamil Poet,
An admirer of Dr.Daisaku Ikeda
Translated this book
Fighting for Peace
in Tamil

Daisaku Ikeda: A Brief Biographical Sketch

Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder, educator, author and poet. He is the third president of the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist organization and the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which is today one of the world's largest and most diverse lay Buddhist organizations, promoting a philosophy of character development and social engagement for peace.

Ikeda is founder of the Soka (value-creation) schools, a nondenominational school system based on an ideal of fostering each student's unique creative potential and cultivating an ethic of peace, social contribution and global consciousness. The school system runs from kindergarten through graduate study and includes a university in Tokyo, Japan, and another in California, USA.

Ikeda is a staunch proponent of dialogue as the foundation of peace. Since the 1970s he has pursued dialogue with a wide range of individuals around the world in political, cultural, educational and academic fields. Over 50 of these have been published in book form, with people such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Elise Boulding, Joseph Rotblat and André Malraux. In furtherance of his vision of fostering dialogue and solidarity for peace, Ikeda has founded a number of independent, nonprofit research institutes that develop cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaboration on diverse issues: the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century (renamed the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in 2009), the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and the Institute of Oriental Philosophy. The Min-On Concert Association and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum promote mutual understanding and friendship between different national cultures through the arts.

DR. PRABHAKARA BABU, TAMIL AUTHOR, SPECIALIED IN HAIKU POETRY, MODERN VERSE, SANGAM TAMIL ADAPTATIONS AND MANY MORE.

Fighting for peace: poems

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

The book, Fighting for Peace, contains wonderful poems of Dr.Daisaku Ikeda. Attracted by this book I have translated the said book from English version in Tamil, a classical language belonging to southern parts India (Chennai BSG), in modern verse. My profile is available in blog "kaviprabhakar.blogspot.com". If someone helps me my tamil version can be printed in mass scale for the benefits of BSG followers in Tamil Nadu. Dr.Daisaku Ikeda is a rare human gem born in this world for us. I adore him.

Translated by Andrew Gebert

Translated in Tamil by Dr.Prabhakarababu titled "AMAIDHIKKANA PORAATTAM"
 (wishing to translate more books of  Dr.Daisaku Ikeda in Tamil)

kaviprabhakar123@gmail.com
Daisaku Ikeda 

Addict not!



 

Heavy dependence on anything outside you is addiction. You can be addicted to drugs and alcohol, to sex and tobacco. And you can also be addicted to blaming people or judging people, to illness, to debt, to being a victim, to being rejected.

By addicting to ill-habits, you lose your valuable power of self-control, self-reliance, majesty, dignity, conduct, character etc. Externally you may lose friendships, relationships, acquaintances, honesty, business, reputations, family, job, benefits, positions, valuables or materials. Addictions may wash away many of these or any one of these. You grow imbalance within you.

Prabhakarababu

After the realizations, you will understand worth of the loss and make frantic efforts to regain. But by that time, most of the damages would have happened. Irreparable losses would have occurred. The losses may be irretrievable. Reconstructing yourself would swallow your youth, energy and joy. Addiction to ill-habits in many ways fractures the normal life.

Being addicted is giving up your power to a substance or a habit. The resultant is loss of strength either physically or mentally.

You can always get your power back. Yes! This is the moment you should get your power back! You have to shed the substance or the habit under the clutch of which your self esteem has been hanging.

You choose to develop the positive habit of knowing that life is here for you. You would be willing to forgive yourself.  

You have an eternal spirit that has always be with you. And it is here with you now! You relax and let go and you remember to breathe as you redeem yourself from addictions and practice positive new ones. As a first step- forgive yourself! OK?

Acceptance

By Prabhakarababu

If you want to be accepted as you are, then you should also be willing to accept others as they are.

We always want to have our parents accept us totally. In the class room, in a team, in a group, in the work places, we want to impose our opinions on others. But yet often we are not willing to accept others as they are.

Acceptance gives you and others the comfort to get along, at least for a specified task. It is incorrect to set standards for others. You can only set standards for yourself. Again, when the standards become commands, strain is the end result. The more you practice self-acceptance, the easier it is to drop habits that no longer useful us. It is easy for you to grow and change in an atmosphere of love.

            The bare truth to be engraved in the mind is that you can never live alone. You can never perform anything alone unless others accept you. Unless you accept others, others won’t accept you. Acceptance shall be both ways for accomplishing the task undertaken. One sided acceptance never serves the purpose.

The mentor and disciple should accept each other. The husband and wife should accept each other. The leader and follower should accept each other. The master and servant should accept each other for harmony. And so on……..

It is the harmony emanating from the relationships that pushes the task ahead. The disharmony retards and many a times, results in break down. It is always the acceptance that showers peace in any relationship. Advocate acceptance for continuous peace in life. Mutual acceptance is the origin of peace. OK?