(L-R) The Buddhist Churches of America's Bishop Koshin Ogui, the author, Karen Armstrong, Alisa Roadcup, and the Compassionate Action Network's Jeris JC Miller at a benefit for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions in Menlo Park, CA, October 16, 2010. Photo © Nadine Priestley, www.nadinepriestley.com.
Today’s quote is from the wonderful Bishop Koshin Ogui, Socho of the Buddhist Churches of America. (I was honored and privileged to meet and spend some time with Bishop Ogui recently at at a benefit for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in Menlo Park, CA, and found him to be a really extraordinary man.) This is it:
Three important things for anyone who associate with me. First one is ‘don’t be too serious.’ Second one is ‘don’t lose sincerity, don’t lose heart.’ And third one is ‘don’t lose sense of humor.’ Those are very, very important three things to associate with me and associate with, I hope, the Buddha’s teaching. How easily we become very serious, when someone cuts off in front when you’re driving, we give all kinds of signs. Such a nice beautiful lady show such a face! Unbelievable, isn’t it!
"Protesters shout slogans calling for a boycott of the Nov. 7 elections in Myanmar during a rally Friday in front of the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City." Photo by Pat Roque for the Associated Press.
The Washington Post reports:
The Chinese government has launched a high-octane diplomatic campaign during the past two months aimed at thwarting the Obama administration’s plan to back an international probe into possible war crimes by Burma’s military rulers.
The Chinese effort – which includes high-level lobbying of top U.N. officials and European and Asian governments – has taken the steam out of the U.S. initiative, which was designed to raise the political costs to Burma’s military junta for failing to open its Nov. 7 elections to the country’s political opposition.
Read the rest here.
(L-R) Gary Gach and the author at University of the West. Photo by Ven. Hyun Gak.
Our friend Gary Gach‘s write-up can be found exclusively at The Buddhist Channel. Check it out.
