SGI founder Daisaku Ikeda, in 1983 takes some time while on the road to encourage those along the way. We can see much in their hardworking faces and body language revealing a unique unity of purpose and beauty. Ikeda took this moment and countless others like it, very seriously. The other men are occupied, perhaps in disarray as Dr. Ikeda seems to have stopped impromptu, at a time when assassination attempts were a constant source of worry.

New Orleans folk listening to government officials speaking about how much BP oil company was doing for them.

U.S. commander David Petreaus experiences a health problem and his fellow military commanders scamper in fear. No amount of badges and awards keep life from going through the eternal changes of birth, growth, decline, and extinction or death. Therefore, Daisaku Ikeda teaches that we live life to the fullest, and to do this a person must develop his or her compassion and wisdom.

This country can afford nuclear weapons but cannot feed its people.