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A la manera de los j?enes: Sentido com? Budista para manejar las preguntas sobre la vida (Spanish Edition) by Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda, who offers spiritual leadership to 12 million Soka Gakkai Buddhists throughout the world, responds to the complicated issues facing American young people in a straightforward question-and-answer format. He addresses topics that include building individual character, the purpose of hard work and perseverance, family and relationships, tolerance, and preservation of the environment. Written from a Buddhist perspective, this collection of answers to life's questions offers timeless wisdom to people of all faiths.
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Daisaku Ikeda
1,231 books521 followersDaisaku Ikeda was a Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder, educator, author and poet. He was 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 was the 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, U.S.A.
Ikeda was 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, 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.
Ikeda was a prolific writer who has published more than 100 works, ranging from Buddhist philosophy to biographical essays, poetry, children's stories and photographic collections.
Ikeda was the 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, U.S.A.
Ikeda was 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, 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.
Ikeda was a prolific writer who has published more than 100 works, ranging from Buddhist philosophy to biographical essays, poetry, children's stories and photographic collections.
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April 30, 2020
Actual rating: 4.5 / 5
This was loaned to me by a friend who practises Buddhism. I would describe myself to be a spiritual type of person, and am always eager to learn more about other faiths, religions and ways of life's.
Although I think this is dedicated more towards a younger audience (perhaps teenaged), I believe it's question answer format is easy to read and the topics discussed is important to all, even if it is more of a reflection of things that mainly plagued me as a child or adolescent.
I'm still early in my life, so I found some of these topics still to be comforting and beneficial, especially the way it was approached.
Family: I particularly enjoyed the idea of you being your own sun, and ultimately the cause of your own happiness. Even if you don't have the support of your family, if bad things are happening or you feel misunderstood, you should feel empowered with the knowledge that you can make yourself happy!
Friendship: I found some of the responses in this song to be a bit lengthy, yet just when I thought the point was lost, I realised how good of an explanation it was.
Love: The most important message I found was that love will not benefit you if the type of love you have consumes your goals, ambitions, identity as an individual and your family and friendship relationships. Although I felt a general wave of young girls and women being the ones to become subject to vulnerability of chasing and not being treated right, I appreciated the understanding included thay it can happen anyone. A little more emphasis on that would be great, so that all can feel well heard. The advice given on sex and teen pregnancy really made me understood how non-judgemental this approach is! Some thing I've noticed in other beliefs is the skip over this topic or the... damnation(?) view of it. This gives sound advice on how to be a good friend to someone in this situation and how can get in the correct mindset to prevent something or try to see it in a different light.
Learning: It's encouraging to see how much education and reading is promoted and that there's this wonderful believe that educating yourself and generally doing your best in life for you and your loved ones will strengthen humanity as well as yourself. I was continually blow away by how preachy this was not and how the advice didn't feel weighed down with a hidden agenda.
Work: This was uplifting, I didn't get as much advice as I was hoping as this would be the chapter that would most resonate with me currently, but still provided good advice and introduced a positive outlook to working life.
Dreams and Goals: Once again sound advice, particularly on honing into and maintaining willpower and determination to strive after your aspirations.
Confidence: Something I lack a great deal of. I believe it would have helped me a great deal as a youngster to read this words. I had encouraging and supportive people around me, but an extra bit of encouragement would always have been welcome!
Compassion: "With the tears your shed you can cleanse your life and make it shine".
The Bigger Picture: I really resonated with the conversations on environmental problems and what we can do to help and the connection is has with our humanity.
This was a wonderful, soft approach to the ways of youth through a Buddhism perspective, without coming across as preachy or pushy in any way. I am now even more looking forward to discussing life etc with my friend that loaned me this.
Pick it up, give it a go and enjoy! >(^_^)<
Gén
This was loaned to me by a friend who practises Buddhism. I would describe myself to be a spiritual type of person, and am always eager to learn more about other faiths, religions and ways of life's.
Although I think this is dedicated more towards a younger audience (perhaps teenaged), I believe it's question answer format is easy to read and the topics discussed is important to all, even if it is more of a reflection of things that mainly plagued me as a child or adolescent.
I'm still early in my life, so I found some of these topics still to be comforting and beneficial, especially the way it was approached.
Family: I particularly enjoyed the idea of you being your own sun, and ultimately the cause of your own happiness. Even if you don't have the support of your family, if bad things are happening or you feel misunderstood, you should feel empowered with the knowledge that you can make yourself happy!
Friendship: I found some of the responses in this song to be a bit lengthy, yet just when I thought the point was lost, I realised how good of an explanation it was.
Love: The most important message I found was that love will not benefit you if the type of love you have consumes your goals, ambitions, identity as an individual and your family and friendship relationships. Although I felt a general wave of young girls and women being the ones to become subject to vulnerability of chasing and not being treated right, I appreciated the understanding included thay it can happen anyone. A little more emphasis on that would be great, so that all can feel well heard. The advice given on sex and teen pregnancy really made me understood how non-judgemental this approach is! Some thing I've noticed in other beliefs is the skip over this topic or the... damnation(?) view of it. This gives sound advice on how to be a good friend to someone in this situation and how can get in the correct mindset to prevent something or try to see it in a different light.
Learning: It's encouraging to see how much education and reading is promoted and that there's this wonderful believe that educating yourself and generally doing your best in life for you and your loved ones will strengthen humanity as well as yourself. I was continually blow away by how preachy this was not and how the advice didn't feel weighed down with a hidden agenda.
Work: This was uplifting, I didn't get as much advice as I was hoping as this would be the chapter that would most resonate with me currently, but still provided good advice and introduced a positive outlook to working life.
Dreams and Goals: Once again sound advice, particularly on honing into and maintaining willpower and determination to strive after your aspirations.
Confidence: Something I lack a great deal of. I believe it would have helped me a great deal as a youngster to read this words. I had encouraging and supportive people around me, but an extra bit of encouragement would always have been welcome!
Compassion: "With the tears your shed you can cleanse your life and make it shine".
The Bigger Picture: I really resonated with the conversations on environmental problems and what we can do to help and the connection is has with our humanity.
This was a wonderful, soft approach to the ways of youth through a Buddhism perspective, without coming across as preachy or pushy in any way. I am now even more looking forward to discussing life etc with my friend that loaned me this.
Pick it up, give it a go and enjoy! >(^_^)<
Gén
October 5, 2014
The Way of Youth will motivate you whenever you are feeling low..Every Words of it written is so true! Guess those whose having problem in life should read this book, you will get your solution definitely!
Easy to understand, applies Nichiren Buddhism to day to day life of the teens, for e.g. Friendship issue, Dreams and Goals, Love, Family issues, Happiness, Careers etc, Great companion for Life!The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions
Easy to understand, applies Nichiren Buddhism to day to day life of the teens, for e.g. Friendship issue, Dreams and Goals, Love, Family issues, Happiness, Careers etc, Great companion for Life!The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions
January 23, 2011
if you're look for a book to read. look no more, this is a book for you. this book is about looking at life and understanding it through the eyes of buddhism. however you do not need to be buddhist to read this book. this helps you better understand live and why things happen. this will help you become a better person and to look at life differently.
May 3, 2024
Would be a great read as a teen. But even at 30, it still has valuable messages.
July 21, 2014
Un libro muy bueno, que te deja pensando, acerca de cómo se está equivocado en cosas y la manera de cambiar esas cosas, Daisaku tiene una visión muy clara de la juventud de ahora y los problemas que se tienen y nos da una manera de solucionarlas en este libro...
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April 27, 2012
really great, easy to understand, applies nichiren buddhism to day to day life of the teens, for e.g. bf issues, money issue, family issues, happiness, careers etc, great companion for life!
July 24, 2014
Awesome book that I wish I had during my teenage years! Highly recommended!
October 13, 2015
interesting book with many simila/common situations
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August 25, 2021Read the Indonesian version published by Ufuk Press.
February 5, 2019
A typical day when I met my close friends and then started to pour my grievances out towards life. This was when I just got back from living abroad for a year, and my biorhythms were a little disrupted from the drastic environments of both cities I were in. (working in Sweden vs studying in Singapore)
My friend's mum overheard me ranting and decided to pass this book to me, making the situation semi-awkward but I'm 100% appreciative of the gesture. As Lunar New Years rolls round the corner, I picked the book and decided to skim it.
Written by a 70+ year old man, Ikeda's writings are full of wisdom. I can tell however, that the language is not written in English. It feels as if it were written in Chinese, then translated. Since I know the Chinese language, I translated the English writings in my mind and thought that the meaning was a lot more profound.
Some of the insights that I have gotten:
1. Hold fast to your identity regardless of how others may appear to change
💐💐💐💐this!💐💐💐💐
2. If you are snubbed or let down by others, have the strength of character to vow that you will never do the same to anyone else.
3. when you have arguments and disagreements w your friends, there should always be an underlying spirit of respect and consideration for each other
4. Once you are addicted to something, your true independence is stripped from you. You become bound by your emotions and cravings for more of these substances. Those who become victims of their own natures and cravings are, strictly speaking, no different from beasts.
5. Become the master of your mind rather than let your mind master you.
6. Essentially, addictions can be pegged to one underlying condition - a lack of foresight and determination toward the future. 🔮
So many people have been robbed the chance to fulfill their great potential because they did not maintain a focus on their goals. Pursuing "fun" in the moment instead led them to ruins.
7. The most attractive person is one who can continue to make steady efforts to fulfil his dream even if others do not recognise their dedication.
Be a person who choose to keep their dreams in sight, be a person of self-control and not immediate gratification.
As I was thinking about friendship recently, these words particularly called out to me:
True friendship is a relationship where you emphatise with each other when they are suffering and encourage them not to lose heart. They, in turn, do the same for you.
Deep friendships are supported by a spirit to grow and advance. Between you and your friends, there must be a commitment to always be there to encourage and help one another as you work toward your respective goals in life.
To have ambition, such as making a meaningful contribution to society, is important. Those who lack a clear, positive purpose or direction in life tend to have friendshios that lead nowhere or are based on dependency. In some cases, these types of friendships actually encourage destructive behaviour. Friendships among people who cheerfully encourage one another while striving to realise their dreams are the kind that deepen and endure.
The book is helpful if you are seeking for certain answers in life. Otherwise, it might not be as relevant.
My friend's mum overheard me ranting and decided to pass this book to me, making the situation semi-awkward but I'm 100% appreciative of the gesture. As Lunar New Years rolls round the corner, I picked the book and decided to skim it.
Written by a 70+ year old man, Ikeda's writings are full of wisdom. I can tell however, that the language is not written in English. It feels as if it were written in Chinese, then translated. Since I know the Chinese language, I translated the English writings in my mind and thought that the meaning was a lot more profound.
Some of the insights that I have gotten:
1. Hold fast to your identity regardless of how others may appear to change
💐💐💐💐this!💐💐💐💐
2. If you are snubbed or let down by others, have the strength of character to vow that you will never do the same to anyone else.
3. when you have arguments and disagreements w your friends, there should always be an underlying spirit of respect and consideration for each other
4. Once you are addicted to something, your true independence is stripped from you. You become bound by your emotions and cravings for more of these substances. Those who become victims of their own natures and cravings are, strictly speaking, no different from beasts.
5. Become the master of your mind rather than let your mind master you.
6. Essentially, addictions can be pegged to one underlying condition - a lack of foresight and determination toward the future. 🔮
So many people have been robbed the chance to fulfill their great potential because they did not maintain a focus on their goals. Pursuing "fun" in the moment instead led them to ruins.
7. The most attractive person is one who can continue to make steady efforts to fulfil his dream even if others do not recognise their dedication.
Be a person who choose to keep their dreams in sight, be a person of self-control and not immediate gratification.
As I was thinking about friendship recently, these words particularly called out to me:
True friendship is a relationship where you emphatise with each other when they are suffering and encourage them not to lose heart. They, in turn, do the same for you.
Deep friendships are supported by a spirit to grow and advance. Between you and your friends, there must be a commitment to always be there to encourage and help one another as you work toward your respective goals in life.
To have ambition, such as making a meaningful contribution to society, is important. Those who lack a clear, positive purpose or direction in life tend to have friendshios that lead nowhere or are based on dependency. In some cases, these types of friendships actually encourage destructive behaviour. Friendships among people who cheerfully encourage one another while striving to realise their dreams are the kind that deepen and endure.
The book is helpful if you are seeking for certain answers in life. Otherwise, it might not be as relevant.
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