I posted that last post for anyone who is thinking that their suffering will never end. The poem expresses a beautiful truth, doesn't it? Instead of whiling our days away complaining to our friends about our sorrows, or lamenting our lives, we turn to our own lives, our own Gohonzon, where we can pour out our hearts as we chant. Here is our home. Here we are safe. Here we enter into a dialogue with the universe within. Here we can speak our truth and wash the pain away. We can open our hearts to the beauty that is within us.
Tears cried while chanting in front of the Gohonzon are like gold, or diamonds, in our lives.
Tears are offerings to our highest selves...offering to our own happiness. And then...in time, those tears will end. They will definitely end. Our Gohonzon is our home within our home...the home of our hearts.
After the tears end we can make a fresh start with a new determination towards our happiness.
We can boldly say: onward. Hon Nim Myo. From this moment forth I am confident in the power of my life. I know that I am creating value with every moment and every cause I make.
Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo IS the cause for our happiness. And we can chant as often and as long as we wish. And if there is some impediment to our chanting, we can CHANT to be able to chant more. We can put that very prayer into our prayer.
We are all precious Boddhisatvas of the earth. We all have such important missions. It is my honor to be able to touch you in any way that inspires you, and inspires us on our journey together. This world needs us. Let's not waste any precious moments in complaint. Let's renew, refresh and move on.
Thank you again for all your kind words and invitations. I will surely travel to meet you all when the time is right. I put a button for donations on the top right side of this blog. If I have inspired you I can inspire more, and you may express your appreciation in this way if you wish. Another way of expressing your appreciation is forwarding this blog to others. (Just type chantforhappiness.com in the body of an email message.) They might see and find just what they were yearning for...and in turn inspire others and on and on...
