365 Days of Justice

Today, all those lies and malicious slanders have been put to rest, and the truth has triumphed. The mentors and disciples of Soka have won. Today across the globe, the Soka Gakkai and its first three presidents are highly praised and regarded as shining lights of hope for all humanity.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Gosho & I

I was preparing a short Gosho passage to study with the Culture Division tomorrow this afternoon. Started with trying to understand the Gosho background, and try to find the phrase that was assigned to me from that Gosho. I started reading it and it was a letter written to his disciple Shijo Kingo. I was so engross on the Gosho and before I know it, I finished reading the entire Gosho. Nichiren Daishonin written this Gosho 750 years ago, and today it still has the appeal to many. I can imagine when Shijo Kingo first receive this letter from Daishonin, he must have been eagerly reading it numerous times! I figured out that must be the great compassion Daishonin has for all humanity that transpire space and time that had captured me.
When several children are caught in a fire, though the parents wish to save them all at the same time, having only two arms, they must decide which child to save first and which to leave until after. The Lotus Sutra is a parent with a thousand arms, ten thousand arms, or a million arms.
On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins

I think one of these arms has extended to this century and to Malaysia too!!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Egypt Trip

I did a bag-packing trip to Egypt for 16 days during the Chinese New Year break. It was full of excitement, surprises and frustration as well. Beautiful country but it seems to me the people are not trustworthy. Most of them that I met were trying to con some money out of me. Even the seemingly helpful school teacher (as he claimed) that help me with direction on the street was asking me for tips after showing where should I take a cab! I bet there are genuinely nice people out there, but there are just too few on the street. I found out the Egyptian were tricked by foreigners big time in the past centuries with some of their most valuable treasures are still in the Museum of London and the Louvre. After knowing this background, I start to understand why they are now out there to cheat people at all possible occasions. Knowing a culture background is important for us to tolerate a behavior or incidence. I start to see the Egyptian from different lights, and start to appreciate their friendliness and helpfulness. And towards the end of my trip, I met a young guy who even offer to pay my tram ticket! I believe when I change (in me), the environment will just change!