Monday, March 28, 2011

Current society.

A world with no prejudice, no judgements, but boundless justice. Is that possible? Nowadays people are being just way too realistic until they could forget what's the purpose of life.

I am very ashamed of you two, sorry to say that. We practice Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. We as the Soka Gakkai members have the big mission to bring peace to the world. Therefore, we've been working so hard for so many events and meetings. But what you guys told me earlier really made me feel so disappointed.

Remember our formal presidents of SGI, Tsunebaro Makiguchi and Josei Toda? They were being thrown to jail because they were against the wrong way of Buddism teaching. They were so strong in terms of faith until they could die in the jail because of not willing to accept the prejudice of Buddism teaching. And next, our current SGI president, Daisaku Ikeda. He was also once thrown into jail because of the exact same thing. That time he went into jail with a smile on his face and he even persuaded the members not to worry about him because there was still faith in this world. Imagine if these 3 presidents were to have the same pathetic thought of yours, do you think we still have the SGI organization? Do you think we still will be able to spread the correct teaching of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism to our surroundings? I don't think so.

You guys kept on telling me that, this is the society, we have no choice but to go with the flow. But you guys were wrong. As a human being, our BIGGEST right is MAKING CHOICES. The choices are made by ourselves, not the choices choose us! If we were born as animals, do you think that we still have the right to make choices? I don't think so.

Yes, society is like that, it's hard to change it. But it is HARD, does it mean we CAN'T do it? There's a big difference between HARD and CAN'T. Bear these words in mind as I mean every single word.

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