When we recite the sutra, we should do so with a voice, strong and confident, clear and melodic. In my writing this is how I hope to be. Whether you write, draw, make music, add up numbers on a spreadsheet, direct planes in an airport, guard resources, answer telephones, field consumer complaints on a hotline, report the news, care for children, make babies, arrange flowers, collect the refuse of humanity, test water quality, drive a bus, guard the cross walk for children, represent voters as a politician, litigate matters before a judge, carry a weapon in combat, train for combat, and on and on the list could go — you have an opportunity to sing the phrases of the Lotus Sutra with the very actions of your task. This is how we can recite the sutra with our lives.