President's Greeting

Good relationship.
Today is Buddha's birthday in 2548 Buddhist Era.
I do wish happy Buddha's birthday to all of you, the family of Anguk Zen Center.
Buddha came to this world as a great result of Karma to save living beings, showed in person the phenomenon of birth, aging, illness and death and advised his disciples to achieve Buddhahood by practicing hard and lighting the lanterns unextinguished forever, the meaning of which we should take to heart.

Knowing that all the universe is full of Buddha's teachings and all living beings of the nature have the Buddha-nature, we, Buddhists, should light lanterns in the minds of living beings.  Furthermore, if we can help the people who are anxious for truth to reach enlightened men easily by hanging out the lanterns full of Buddha's mercy, it will be a big blessing to other Buddhists who learn and practice Buddhism.

It is very meaningful that, holding majestic lantern ceremony, Buddhist mass and baby Buddha bath on Buddha's birthday, we take to heart and bear in mind the meaning of Buddha's birthday. In addition to it, we should get a rod(jookbi) of mind ready so that we may devote  to Buddha our emptied minds which we have cleaned and polished by practicing for long.

We should get ready for monks' rods(jookbi) which prevent us from falling into sleepiness and restlessness .What is more important, if we scold and punish ourselves with a rod(jookbi) of mind, behave as Bosal(a Buddhist saint) with Buddha's teaching in mind and live with Hwado even in busy and hard life, wouldn't the life in the filthy and turbid world become much easier?

The everlasting Buddha of miraculous efficacy you should preserve with incessant practice.
I hope you will stick to(keep watching) Hwado all the time, hitting your lazy bodies and minds which have not escaped from greed, anger and foolishness yet with your rods(jookbi) of mind.
Let's practice hard.

On Buddha's Birthday, 2548 Buddhist Era

Soo Bool