The Municipality of Tinian and Aguihan held a peace ceremony in the D. Ikeda, M. Gandhi, M.L. King Peace Garden in San Jose Village last Thursday. <\/p>\n
It honored the Japanese who lost their lives in Nagasaki, the 73rd anniversary of it, and Hiroshima three days earlier. Tinian Mayor Joey Patrick San Nicolas, who had just returned from Hiroshima where he attended remembrance ceremonies read words from the mayor of Hiroshima and a poem called \u201cI Come and Stand At Every Door\u201d by Nazim Hikmet. It is about a 7 year old girl who died in the Hiroshima bombing. Japan consul Kinji Shinoda gave up to date statistics about how deaths related to the bombings from radiation sickness continue and called for a grass roots movement for Tinian, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki to lead a worldwide movement to end nuclear warfare. <\/p>\n
Rep. Edwin P. Aldan (R-Tinian) made remarks about the historic bombings and nuclear war. These three laid wreaths of remembrance for those who passed away due to the atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I wrote two poems for the occasion and read them at the peace ceremony. The poems were inspired by writing of Daisaku Ikeda.<\/p>\n
GOODNESS IN ONE\u2019S SELF AND OTHERS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe key to the flowering of humanity of which Buddhism speaks is steadfast belief in people\u2019s goodness and dedication to cultivating this goodness in one\u2019s self and others.\u201d\u2014Daisaku Ikeda, born 1928.<\/p>\n These wise words by Ikeda, Daisaku The frog is gone but ripples from his dive remain We saw the frog sitting and then it quickly jumped in A peaceful way we can diminish wars and insanity BONDS OF TRUST AND FRIENDSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn the end, peace will not be realized by politicians signing treaties. True and lasting peace will only be realized by forging life-to-life \u2018bonds of trust and friendship\u2019 among the world\u2019s people. Human solidarity is built by opening our hearts to each other. This is the power of dialogue.\u201d\u2014D. Ikeda<\/p>\n In dialogue we talk frequently of bonds of trust We must find among all peoples around the world It begins with Ikeda\u2019s \u201copening our hearts to each other\u201d Ikeda\u2019s 2018 peace proposal is \u201c Toward an Era of The Municipality of Tinian and Aguihan held a peace ceremony in the D. Ikeda, M….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22298,67,50,17932],"class_list":["post-282044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-daisaku-ikeda","tag-people","tag-power","tag-tinian-peace-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmay remind us of the frog jumping in the water
\nthe frog jumps into the water in a famous haiku
\nbringing reality to father, mother, son, and daughter<\/p>\n
\never widening across the water of the old pond
\nlike goodness in others Dr. Ikeda tries to explain
\nripples grow respect for humanity like a magic wand<\/p>\n
\nwe heard the splash and in an instant the frog was gone
\nbelief in others goodness is a sure place we can begin
\ndedication to growing it in self and others begins at dawn<\/p>\n
\ncultivating the flowering of goodness in humanity.<\/p>\n
\nand their connection with bonds of friendship
\nin any relationship both are an absolute must
\nfor lasting peace as we go through life\u2019s trip<\/p>\n
\na respect for and absolute need for human solidarity
\nregardless language spoken or under what flag unfurled
\nrespect sought for and worked towards with absolute clarity<\/p>\n
\nnot with a focus on self like in Hamlet\u2019s monologue
\nbut a focus on every man, woman, sister, and brother
\nthat my friends is Ikeda\u2019s \u201c power of dialogue\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHuman Rights-Building a People\u2019s Movement \u201d
\nwith your recognition of and respect for the dignity
\nof others on a daily basis you will make improvement
\nDomo arigato gozaimasu yan si Yu\u2019us ma\u2019ase\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"