"Reverend Niwano, you are such an optimist," I am often told. "What is your secret?" I have no special secret. I simply believe that...

A long time ago in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of dining with the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for physics, Hideki Yukawa...

One of Japan's greatest professional baseball players, Shigeo Nagashima of the Yomiuri Giants, could always be counted on to come through...

The T'ang poet Yu Wu-ling ends his poem "Offering Wine" by saying that life is full of partings: Accept the golden drinking cup that I...

It is often said that the completion of a fancy new office building can be a corporation's downfall. Sitting at their desks and working...

I recently dined with a man involved in a wide range of businesses. "They say the economy is recovering," he noted, "but I do not see...

Let us first consider the fact that all things are impermanent. This means that all phenomena are constantly changing; nothing remains...

There are universal truths in this world that no one can deny. Although the various things that happens in our daily lives may seem to...

We can drink water everyday without tiring of it precisely because it is odorless and tasteless. Rice, bread, and potatoes are staple...

Buddhism calls the world in which we live the saha-world, a world of suffering and sorrow that must be endured. There is much we have to...

Rules emerge naturally in a society in which everyone is interconnected with everyone else. "Do not kill," "Do not steal," "Do not...