This morning we had our regularly scheduled gosho study! We studied “the True Aspect of All Phenomena” written to Sairen Bo in 1273.
Not a bad meeting as meetings go, encouraging to me at least. It just struck me how many of the “usual suspects” were present; those looking to be encouraged, those looking to encourage, children and other “hangers on” and lastly, the ubiquitous and ever-present “administrators”, also known as “Japanese Pioneer Woman’s Division”.
One Men’s division is on fire right now, out of a job and past unemployment, he is chanting buku Daimoku and doing serious “naturally occurring” shakabuku (as I like to call it, the kind you just end up doing when you’re really on a roll like he is). Truthfully, he is our treasure right now. He’s got good important struggles, and is truly using the practice and the Gohonzon the way we can choose to when we really need to.
The Japanese WD division always interest me. I will ask them questions when the invariably don’t say anything throughout the meeting, but I know that they look at themselves as the “admin corps” or the SGI, quietly waiting, listening, observing - looking to correct anything they think isn’t quite right, later on when they pull you aside…
Funny stuff, all the usual suspects of your standard successful Gakkai study meeting.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Donald out.
I was reading in the Soka Gakkai Study Department booklet on The True Aspect this past weekend, dealing with the Bodhisattvas of the Earth. Is that what you were studying from, or from the LB, or both?
Hope your MD has lots of good fortune riding over the hills at him. There's nothing like a bout of unemployment to stoke the old faith furnace. I've been there and done that. Thanks for your blog, Don - I enjoy hearing from you. Best, Byrd in LA
Posted by: Byrd in LA at August 28, 2006 04:20 PMMaybe it's time to overcome some challenges to get our district fired up.
Nancy