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So, there again, another accidental involvement for me
This will be the first ever involvement for SGI Belgium in a community event in Belgium. This is a very significant moment, an important step for kosenrufu in Belgium and I am really proud to be part of it!
Kotekitai Belgium was invited to participate in the Zinneke Parade 2008. It is [...]

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An old ex-colleague (he is not old but old in time we met) has recently attended his first SGI meeting in the Netherlands. And he told me this…
“Someone asked me how did I encounter this Buddhism?
People in Utrecht were suprised… I said I heard about Soka Gakkai from my Malasian ex-colleague from Singapore who now [...]

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“A dialogue for happiness, one Europe for peace!” 

March 16, 2008 @ Milano 
SGI European Youth Division General Meeting
It was such a memorable day! 5,000 SGI youth from 35 countries throughout Europe gathered for an SGI-Europe Youth General Meeting held at the Datch Forum in Milan, Italy, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of March 16, 1958, when second [...]

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I would say the discussion went pretty well, though everyone had to speak thru the interpreter, Barbara.
The thing that strikes me the most are the realisation I went thru while trying my best to answer to their curious questions.
First, a dynamic and powerful gongyo together. (I did my evening gongyo twice that day!)
We started off [...]

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I was there to remake the history of 3.16.
Here’s to share, but also to remember…
March 15, 2008
5:30, 5:45, 6:00
The alarm bell rang and rang and rang. Jumped out of bed - out of the great excitement. Yippee, that big day has arrived!
Shower, powder up and quickly make my luggage - travel light!
7:45
Left for [...]

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