Good evening!
Just before I came here, I watched the news from Japan, which reported on
a father who lost all six of his family members in the Tsunami two years ago.
Bringing photos of his family, he attended the local primary school graduation
ceremony to receive his youngest daughter’s graduation diploma.
School graduation ceremonies are taking place all over Japan now. We say
graduation rather than commencement, because students are graduating from
many years of studious studies with “the light of fireflies and that of the windows’
snow,” as the Japanese song set to the tuen of the Auld Lang Syne says.
Auld Lang Syne in Japan is the farewell song at schools and ships’ departures, etc.
Today I saw a video of Noam Chomsky’s “If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate
Change Will.” Even if these don’t get us, the truth will eventually, without exception,
like the daughter by the black waves.
Why can’t we strenuously study the great awakened way to cultivate and verify the
triple minds of magnanimous, mature, and mudita (joyful) minds, rather than small,
immature, suffering minds? So, let us sit with the best postures, the best breathing,
and the best mental states!
3/28/13
. Jiji.com 時事通信社 東日本大震災 100枚の記録 写真特集より