Gosho for February

Letter to the Brothers Part 1. Overcome all obstacles through steadfast faith! See JanFeb Living Buddhism.

Monday, February 16, 2004

Men's Division Meeting

The Men’s Division will meet at 10am Sunday 22 Feb at the DC Community Center. Details of the agenda are unknown but a request for info yielded the following response:

 

“I had tried to express at the last world peace gongyo that we would be having roundtable group discussions on issues that "hold us back".  we also spoke to our theme of "Reawakening our Practice" and at that same presentation I said we would be starting with Gongyo followed by discussion workgroups and light refreshments.”

 

No word on how long the meeting is scheduled to last.

 

 

Sunday, February 15, 2004

RE: TUESDAY 17 Feb 04 PG MD/YMD planners

Is there an agenda for the meeting? How long will it last? All I know so far
is that it starts at 10am on the 22nd. Phil encouraged us to call everyone
about the meeting but it would really help if we could say something
besides, "We're having a meeting and you should come."

Some of the guys might need extra motivation to get out of bed early on a
Sunday morning (at least its early for me) and go to a meeting that,
historically, is not real interesting unless you are fully convinced that
the road to kosenrufu is the only one to travel. There are other lifestyles
and most of us are persuing one of the others.

The 30 Jan World Tribune includes a speech delivered by President Ikeda in
which he quotes second president Josei Toda as saying, "The things you do
for yourself are also for the sake of kosen-rufu and the world, so I hope
that you'll put most of your effort in faith toward your own happiness and
whatever is left over toward kosen-rufu." This has been reiterated by
President Ikeda on numerous occassions when he described SGI activities as
liesure time activities.

It turns out that liesure times are those times when there's nothing good on
TV (which is considered by some to be all the time, but you can get the
idea). The point is that we might have to make time to do activities. What
can I tell members and friends that will encourage them to make time for
this meeting.


>Dear Prince George's Area Stalwarts,
>I will be out of town this weekend--not everyone has
>responded to my earlier message--must make a decision
>and hope you will all support to make it a good one.
>
>Please let us meet at DC CC 7 PM on the coming TUESDAY
>17 FEb 04 to walk through the flow of our meeting and
>final coords etc.
>
>Thank you so much,
>Chanting for Prince George's men and young men to
>awaken and be ready for Spring!!!
>
>Phill
>
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Monday, February 09, 2004

Discussion Meeting

Bowie discussion meeting Friday the 13th! 7pm. Wolpert’s.

 

Wendy and Jay’s study topic

 

            plus

 

Overcoming Obstacles – January Living Buddhism p17.

 

            and, time permitting,

 

Points to ponder about faith (see World Tribune for 30 Jan):

            Faith for a harmonious family

            Faith for each person to become happy

            Faith for surmounting obstacles

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

World Peace Gongyo

This month’s Kosenrufu Gongyo, hosted by PG Area, will be held on Saturday 7 Feb at 7pm. DC Area will host on Sun at 10am.