2025年01月16日
Thursday, January 16th, 2025 (7th Reiwa).
The first snow fell on January 10. It doesn't snow much around here. Even if it does snow, it only a few times during winter. And everybody is looking forward to spring.
As I wrote before, I remember the following passage: “Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to spring” (To the lay nun Myōichi, 1275).
2024年12月22日
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024 (6th Reiwa).
With only a few days left in the year, Nagoya is now feeling like winter, as it is enveloped in a cold wave. Incidentally, the minimum temperature dropped below 0 degrees for the first time this season the other day. A stray cat in the neighborhood has also started taking its usual naps on the dead grass in my garden.
Last month when I went to Osaka, I got off at the new station of the Kita-Osaka Kyuko (Minoh-Kayano Station). Or rather, it might be more accurate to say that I went to see the new terminal station (the next station after Senri-Chuo Station is Minohsemba-handaimae Station), which was extended northward.
Now, I am about to finish crossing the ocean of life. Of course, it has not been smooth sailing, and I have not been able to live the way I wanted. I did not have any great abilities, but I chanted the daimoku and made an effort. The Gosho says, "A blue fly, if it clings to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, can travel ten thousand miles, and the green ivy that twines around the tall pine can grow to a thousand feet." (On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land) That is exactly me.
2024年11月30日
Saturday, November 30th, 2024 (6th Reiwa).
On November 21st, I visited the Tower of the Sun.
What I felt when I stood facing the Tower of the Sun was that it represents the very spirit of the Japanese people.
On November 22nd, I visited Ohtaki (Ō Falls) in Mino park(Japanese). Even though it was a Friday, the Ohtaki was crowded with people coming to see the autumn leaves.
On November 24th, I went to the concert "Cimarron Japan Tour 2024”, organized by Min-On. It was held to celebrate the following milestones: 70th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and Colombia, 95th anniversary of Japanese-Colombian immigration, and the 205th anniversary of the founding of Greater Colombia by Simon Bolivar, the “Father of South American Liberation."
The slogan of Soka Gakkai in 2025 is “Year of soaring Higher Towards a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide”.
What I felt when I stood facing the Tower of the Sun was that it represents the very spirit of the Japanese people.
On November 22nd, I visited Ohtaki (Ō Falls) in Mino park(Japanese). Even though it was a Friday, the Ohtaki was crowded with people coming to see the autumn leaves.
On November 24th, I went to the concert "Cimarron Japan Tour 2024”, organized by Min-On. It was held to celebrate the following milestones: 70th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and Colombia, 95th anniversary of Japanese-Colombian immigration, and the 205th anniversary of the founding of Greater Colombia by Simon Bolivar, the “Father of South American Liberation."
The slogan of Soka Gakkai in 2025 is “Year of soaring Higher Towards a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide”.
