Jill Rees: Welcome Press

Last week was no fun at all, every moment seemed difficult. I gave the experience at the Buddhist meeting last night. I have prayed to do Kosen Rufu in Austria, though I don’t know how I can do this, travelling around staying in hotels. However I gave an experience at the women’s education meeting at the Centre a month ago about linking up with Sensei, and since then several women have come up to me and said this experience helped them break through deadlock, including Buddhists from Linz as well as Vienna. The people here, especially the women, feel heavy and somewhat defeated. Kosen Rufu is hard here, they say, Austria is a country laden with heavy karma, which people don’t want to face yet. I chanted about this and decided that what was needed was a connection with Sensei, and to understand that the daimoku is all-powerful.

This is what I’ve been speaking about to people, gratitude, vision of our mission and to connect with Sensei.

Yesterday I listened to the experiences at the meeting in German, turning down the offer to translate. It conceals understanding people’s feelings when there is a translator, even though you miss some of the meaning. I understood most of it. Gabby spoke of the great joy, a young man of his struggle with cancer. At the end Evelyn asked me to speak, sensing (bless her) that I wanted to say something, but I didn’t know if I ought.

I spoke of last week, when I felt as if my presence was pointless. I chanted and realised that, whatever was going on, I am always with Sensei and always doing Kosen Rufu, even though I may not feel as if I am. I vowed each day to reveal my Buddhahood and do my best. At the end of this time, I got the email about the meeting and was able to come a day early to Vienna, plus I got a great room at the Terminus. This is my benefit, and then I realised that although the week wasn’t good, I hadn’t really suffered, and I had the certainty of my oneness with Sensei and my mission, and this is peace and happiness in this life. Although you don’t feel enraptured and flooded with the joy of Buddhahood all the time, you are actually enlightened. Buddhahood is in fact to continue and never give up. I think this helped those who were suffering to have some faith. The Kansai slogan ‘Never give up’ is the key to Buddhahood in this lifetime.

At this point I thought why am I in Vienna? It must be to give encouragement to these women, because we have such a strong faith in the UK which I can pass on for Robert Samuels. It is very mystic.

And now since Evelyn said to me ‘No you are doing Kosen Rufu anyway, you don’t have to travel because you are doing it wherever you are’, I have wondered if I should be travelling and causing difficulty for my family. But I have made causes, such as teaching EFL and in international schools, which is bound to bear fruit. It is just a question of faith to continue, and never give up, and trust the causes I made through my daimoku.

Looking at my determinations, they are really, to be a cause for Soka Education in the world, to write, and to secure Kosen Rufu worldwide.

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