Sosyu Genkoroku IV [Kofuku to wa nanika](written by Shigyo Sosyu, published by Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., \2,200 including tax. Scheduled to be released after June 20, 2025, 344 pages) ISBN:978-4-408-65130-9)

　This time, from Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, Ltd., Shigyo Sosyu’s new series of Sosyu Genkoroku IV [Kofuku to wa nanika] will be released after June 20, 2025 (\2,200 including tax, ISBN:978-4-408-65130-9, 344 pages) Click here to purchase or make reservation.

　Sosyu Genkoroku is a compilation of talks given by the author at lectures, and the fourth book is titled “Kofuku to wa nanika (What is Happiness?)” the Part 1 is a lecture given at the Tokyo Headquarters of PHP Research Institute (relayed from the Kyoto Headquarters) in commemoration of the publication of “Gendai no Kosatsu (A Study of Actuality),” the Part 2 is a lecture given at the Nakanoshima Center of Osaka University, hosted by Ningengaku-jyuku Nakanoshima, and Part 3 is a lecture given for the class of the 36th term of the Matsushita Seikei Juku. The Part 4 contains the lectures given at the 50th anniversary of the Death of Mishima Yukio and the 53rd “Yukoku-ki ”. This book is filled with the true “what is happiness” and the philosophy of happiness that promotes fundamental life-burning, which is different from modern people’s view of happiness. Please pick up a copy.

　Part 1: On Happiness
　Part 2: What is Morality – Toward True Happiness
　Part 3: What is Longing for Humanity
　Part 4: Mythology and Happiness – A Record of Lectures of Yukoku-ki

　The Zen phrase “Banri Ichijyo no Tetsu” (from “Ninden ganmoku”) was chosen by Shigyo Sosyu to express “what happiness means”. According to Shigyo Sosyu, “It represents true cosmic equality. There is one will (soul) that pervades everything. There is eternal equality.”
My view of happiness refers to the true combustion of the one life that is lived only once. That is what I continue to affirm as human happiness. –From the Foreword to “What is Happiness?