Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays of Daisaku Ikeda

In appearance, this author proclaims and encourages to “support young's potentials, build social network and live every day to the fullest”. When you read more deeply, you realize that this collection of essays is filled with very backward, judgmental and dangerous ideas.

I gave it one star because of several problematic opinions he has proclaimed, one of the most dangerous being: “If young people neglect their lives, spend all their times in idle pursuit, are overly cautious, allow themselves to be weak and ineffectual, then they are guilty of commiting spiritual suicide. No course of action could be more shallow or ill-considered.”

Many red flags like this one makes me run away from this cult-like writer.