Dharma Articles

This is the Mission and Vision Statements of the Betsuin. These statements guide us in our decisions and our responsibilities. Mission Statement Be a community of peace, happiness and understanding by sharing and practicing Buddhist teachings. Vision Statement We are striving to create an inclusive

As it is getting warmer, we can see that flowers gradually started blooming. Everywhere. It makes me so excited.  When we have a Buddhist service at the temple, we decorate with flowers in our Naijin or inner altar space to pay respect to Buddha.  But,

And the answer to the question about Obon is………..well, maybe.  How’s that for a wishy washy answer!  Based upon our initial poll results, there appears to be a lot of support for having a “normal” Obon this year.  The results also confirm our earlier suspicions…many

Many years ago oshoko was commonly translated “incense offering”. We used “offering” in many of our practices to describe an action before the Buddha. When we used to observe our Hanamatsuri service in the Annex, students would bring flowers, omanju, candles and incense offerings to

Just try to imagine, if you share a table with 4 people in your family or friends together, which table would you prefer, a round table or square table? I would choose maybe a square table. I know that a round table looks cute and

The calendar says that the end of Winter is just a couple of weeks away, but you could have fooled me!  I think we are already in Spring.  We haven’t seen any significant precipitation since December.  The last couple of weeks have seen temperatures in