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.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Daimoku of Lion's Roar

I lectured on a gosho study meet in HH District last night. The gosho passage is on Reply to Kyo O, one of my favorite gosho and the first gosho phrase that I memorized by hard...
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo is like the roar of a lion, what sickness can therefore be an obstacle.

This time when I read this very same passage again, it has another, more significant, meaning to me. In Buddhism, Lion or "shiji" in Chinese carries the meaning of the spirit of Mentor & Disciple. So, when I revisited the passage again, to chant the lion's roar-like daimoku, it means to me the daimoku of Mentor & Disciple. It now means more than a daimoku that is so strong that will dispel all sickness but a daimoku that is same as our mentor's. It has to be the daimoku for the happiness of ourselves & others, the daimoku of peace, the daimoku of victory, the daimoku for humanity & the daimoku for kosen-rufu. I do not think my previous daimoku of personal victory, personal fortune, personal relationship, personal wealth, personal this & personal that is in sync with my mentor! How shameful!
So, I reckon in order to dispel all sickness (not necessarily health sickness, can be problems we faced in life), I have to start chant like Sensei! In fact, this Mentor & Disciple spirit is the whole gist of Buddhism. Then I can proudly say:
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo is like the roar of a lion, what sickness can therefore be an obstacle!

Monday, July 13, 2009

7.11 YMD Day

We had one of the most successful YMD Day Meeting 2 days ago. The theme for our YMD Day meeting is Human Revolution. We had an afternoon YMD All Leaders Meeting, we had YMD Night Duty appreciation dinner in the evening and followed by ALL YMD Meeting at night. It is a long day of meetings and everyone enjoyed them. We had the YMD leaders to perform the seven characteristics of Human Revolution to their fellow members, and they did great! Towards the end I talked to them about how Human Revolution is actually equivalent to Enlightenment in contemporary term. I hope they grasp the point. We should have this YMD Day meeting every year for ALL YMD to get together and go GaGa! Gakkai meetings should have ambient and spirit like that and everyone will be looking forward for Gakkai meetings.