The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions

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Middleway Press, 2012 M03 1 - 224 pages
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.
 

Contents

1 FAMILY
1
2 FRIENDSHIP
13
3 LOVE
37
4 LEARNING
55
5 WORK
87
6 DREAMS GOALS
99
7 CONFIDENCE
117
8 COMPASSION
135
9 THE BIGGER PICTURE
155
Afterword
179
Index
181
About the Author
187
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Daisaku Ikeda is the author of more than 60 books including The Living Buddha, Buddhism: The First Millennium, Choose Life, and Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death. He is the president of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist renewal movement and has received the United Nations Peace Award.

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