Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Feb 17: Waves of Joy


We are in the midst of District Discussion Meeting week!! Let's welcome many new members and have wonderful women's led meetings just as SGI President Ikeda wrote in today's “To My Friends."

--TO MY FRIENDS--
History is created
from small gatherings.
"Showing [them] the same respect
you would a Buddha,"(*)
let's praise the participants
and create tens of thousands
of waves of joy.

(*)THE RECORD OF THE ORALLY TRANSMITTED TEACHINGS, "Chapter Twenty-eight: Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy--six important points, Point Six," p. 192 A quote from the 28th chapter of the Lotus Sutra. ["You should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha."]

(To My Friends is SGI President Ikeda’s daily encouragement which appears in the Soka Gakkai daily newspaper, the Seikyo Shimbun)