Rev. Danny Fisher

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!