Activities w/c 12/11/12

Many apologies for the lack of recent posts; it has been a very busy time with the Grade 1 and 2 Study Courses only drawing to a close with the exams yesterday. Well done to all those who took part in the courses for exerting yourselves in the "two ways of practice and study" (WND-1, 383).

There was something I wanted to share with you all on Friday but my scanner seems not to be working so it may be a few days before I am able to do so. Regardless, we have a couple of great activities coming up this week and we also commemorate 82 years since the founding of the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda on the 18th November (I'll do a commemorative post with lots more info at the weekend). 


Men's Division Meeting - Monday, 19.00-21.00 at Fred's
The manliest meeting of the month. All the MD members should have already been informed about this so I shan't say much other than to extend my sincere wish that you all have a joy-filled and inspirational meeting.

District Daimoku - Tuesday, 19.00-20.00 at Alessandro and Natalya's
Our second district tozo of the month, chanting for the growth of the district and happiness of all its members. Let's make a great effort to come together in the spirit of "many in body, one in mind". Gongyo at 7.30pm.

Chapter Study - Sunday, 13.00-16.00 at Castlegreen Leisure Centre, Broughty Ferry
The last Chapter Study of the year returns to our own district this month and promises to be utterly brilliant (even if the weather doesn't). Prue Bucknall, Northern Lights Women's Leader, will be giving a lecture on "The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra" and chapter leaders have piqued our curiosity with the possibility of "other special things" at the end of the meeting. Special Gongyo to begin at 1.30pm.


I hope that you are all being victorious in this very significant month. I look forward to speaking with you all very soon. I'll leave you with a wee Gosho quote that I quite liked:

"It is the way of ordinary people that, even though they spur themselves on to arouse the aspiration for enlightenment and wish for happiness in the next life, they exert themselves no more than one or two out of all the hours of the day, and this only after reminding themselves to do so. As for myself, I read the Lotus Sutra without having to remember to, and practice it even when I do not read its words aloud." (WND-1, 43)