Inspiration for SGI-UK Kosen-rufu Gongyo Meetings in August

'If the nation is destroyed and people's homes are wiped out, then where can one flee for safety?

If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquillity throughout the four quarters of the land, should you not?'

(Writings of Nichiren Daishonin 1 p24)

'If nuclear weapons epitomize the forces that would divide and destroy the world, they can only be overcome by the solidarity of ordinary citizens, which transforms hope into the energy to create a new era.'

(SGI President Ikeda's Proposal 'Building Global Solidarity toward Nuclear Abolition' September 2009).

August 6^th and 9^th mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively in 1945.