The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-18

and Immediately the palace and prin-
Buddhism is the magic lamp, for when
a man takes that and keeps it in his
house and rubs it, all good influences
come to him; he walks in the path of
wisdom and knows how to love his
country and be a good man or woman.
1t is a precious thing to keep in your
house.
Beware of these people who come
around with a new lamp and ask you
to give UP your old one. If you do you
will lose your happiness. your friends.
and will get in exchange for that some
thing that is not good. Buddhism
teaches us that the things which be-
long to this lower physical life are not
so important as the things which De-
long to the highest or spiritua1 life.
For example, suppose some one offers
you a jewel and another person offers
you happiness. No one will take the
jewel when happiness can be obtained.
Happiness belongs to the requirement
of virtue. We see everywhere in the
world unhappiness, suffering and
things which give sorrow. What is the
cause of this? 1t is ignorance; be-
cause when we are ignorant we are
continually doing things which make
us unhappy. Through Ignorance We
will be dishonest, low and vile, and We
bring upon us our punishment
Through ignorance we acquire the
habit of drink and it's resultant mis-
cry, and we gamble. l am afraid from
what 1 hear that the japanese people
in this country are not living as good
lives as they did in Japan, they are
drinking and gambling. Drive away
this ignorance and get wisdom; dispel
ignorance and learn what to do, and
then have the courage to do it.
Il think the Japanese here have done
a very wise thing to subscribe TO put
UP this temple, because this is a tenn
pie where the philosophy of our religion
will be taught, and they will have
some place to remind them of their
own home and country. 1t is a good
| thing. Before this temple was built
you were a scattered people. This is
Japan brought to Hawaii
| The speaker thanked the Buddhists
| of Honolulu for their subscription of
! $3.50 which was sent to India to aid
| the famine stricken people. Col. Oh
colt personally placed the money in
| the hands of Prince in Fujarat, who
bought food for his people, He was
| glad to be able to thank them for their
noble gift
| II have" he continued, been salts
| fled with Buddhism for twenty-seven
years. and my advice to you is to keep
| to Buddhism, for it is the best religion
| for your purposes. There are. two diff
ferent schools of Buddhism - the
Northern and Southern. The Japanese
belong to the Northern; the Ceylonese,
Burmese and SiameSe to the Southern.
| These two schools, like all different
religious sects. taught different things.
Buddhism was introduced to the world
$500 years ago, and since that time
there has been no union between them.
But although they differed in their
teachings only in detail, yet they were
all one family under the Lord Saka-
mogi. AS i was a Buddhist, / wanted
to see my brethren of the North and
South united. 1 found some points
upon which they could stand together
like brothers. BY studying both the
teachings 1 was able to find plenty of
things in which they were perfectly
agreed. ] wrote these out, had them
translated into the different langu-
ages and called together a council of
the great priests, who discussed them
Now we have a platform upon which
the whole Buddhist family can stand
united. Then there was another thing
by which we were united That flag
Whlch you see floating over this tenn
PIE, pointing to a huge flag of blue
yellow, red, white and magenta stripes,
was introduced by myself into ia
pan and the Emperor accepted it. The
priests studied it and found the colors
were the right ones to be chosen. and
SO everywhere I went in Japan the
nag was put up side by side with the
Japanese national flag 1t is symbolic
OF Buddha, and every Buddhist in the
world can accept it as his flag. I want
each OF you to- have little flag like
that in your house. so you may have
before you the holy light of Buddha.
represented always. There may be
people who will abuse you Those who
don't believe in our religion will il,
suit you, but don't have the feeling Of
striking back because we are taught
to respect the opinions of our neigh
bors. SO be kind and forbearing to
people of other religions and remember