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Title: Fighting for Peace by Daisaku Ikeda ISBN: 0-88739-618-6 Publisher: Warwick Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Not Haikus From a Japanese Poet
Comment: Definitely not contemplations of moonlight or falling leaves. This is a powerful collection of poems on the theme of peace. In prolonged verse form, Ikeda explores the question of what drives people to war. He finds the answer, not surprisingly (he's a Buddhist), in the human heart, which he declares holds "terrible possibilities." Much of the book is dedicated to very energetic critiques of those who use positions of privilege to wage war and bring suffering on the world's peace-loving citizens. If that was all they did these poems would be just good angry verse: justified, cathartic, but still leaving you feeling "so what do I do from here?" But his philosophy generates moments when the line between "us" and "them" (who is an ordinary citizen, after all? who do Buddhists include when they talk about "all living beings?") blurs; when that happened the poems became personal. I found myself thinking about my own "terrible possibilities" and whether there isn't something more I can do for peace than complain. The language is large and blunt, but with more subtlety that is first apparent (leaving you wondering how much subtle stuff got lost in translation). Strong stuff.

Rating: 5
Summary: Some Hope in the Dark
Comment: This book has helped save my sanity. Since before we invaded Iraq, I kept wondering "why"? None of this seemed necessary. I wrote letters to my congressmen, even called them up. And still we went to war. When Baghdad fell, I thought at least it's going to be over quickly. First it seemed like it was going to just simmer; now it seems like it is all about to explode. I know a young man in our town who was killed over there and I go online to the part of armytimes.com where they show the profiles of the fallen. When I look at the faces of those brave young men and women whose lives have been cut short so terribly, I just cry. A friend of mine who knew how upset I've been gave me this book. It has helped a lot just knowing someone feels as strongly about this as I do. For me right now, that is a source of hope.