Daily Practice - Chanting for safety during the Olympics

Guidance for Saturday 11th August Peace and security daimoku proposal ELA'12:     

On Jan 23rd Tokyo Metropolitan area experienced its first substantial snowfall in some time. At 4.30 the next morning, when it was still dark and freezing, members of the Soka High School baseball team were out shoveling snow in the street in front of Higashiyamatoshi Station. No one told them to do so. Wishing to be of assistance to the local community they decided to do this on their own initiative. By 6.00am when commuters started to arrive at the station, they had cleared a path. And then the youth went to school as usual. When people in the community later learned about what the young men had done, they were impressed.
I am reminded of the words of the late Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai; "It is very, very important for us to take action at the local level, because sometimes when we think of global problems, we get disempowered, but when we take action at the local level, we are empowered." NL8454