Good morning. How are you today?
Bloom your own way, at your very best. This is Shima, from Oubaitori.com.
This is my record of chanting 10,000 Daimoku each morning.
Yesterday, I kept a promise I had made to my wife.
A promise stays caught in the heart
A promise is a strange thing. The longer the time that passes after you make it, the more naturally you forget it. And yet something remains, caught somewhere in the heart.
Yesterday, one of those was finally cleared. And through that, I received something from my wife — a small measure of trust. To be able to make a promise. To be able to keep it. That is a good thing.
There is also a promise to yourself
In truth, it is not easy. To make a promise. To be able to. To keep it. To carry it out. If only we could put a promise into proper shape.
And there is also the promise made to oneself. Put your hand on your chest and think carefully. “I want to become like this.” “I want to be that.” “Wouldn’t it be good to be this way.” But that is only a wish.
When you think, “I must actually do it” — in the end, unless you make a promise with yourself, it ends as a wish and nothing more.
That promise is a vow before the Gohonzon
So what is that promise? I believe it is a vow made before one’s own Gohonzon.
“This is how I will live.” We make that promise to ourselves and to the Gohonzon — and this is what we are doing every day, morning and evening, as we chant Daimoku.
We must not break the promise made before the Gohonzon. We keep the promise made to ourselves. And of course, we keep the promises made to those beside us. That is the life I hope to live.
Let’s Daimoku! Thank you, and I look forward to today with you.
🙏 From Yukihiro Shima — Oubaitori.com
Bloom your own way, at your very best.
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