Dharma Articles

President’s Message It’s nearing the end of the year and the days are shorter and colder.  As I reminisce about the past, November was usually a slow month. Not much is going on, except Thanksgiving.  While in school, we were taught that Thanksgiving was an

“Peace of mind and Namo Amidabutsu!” E Mikame With Halloween coming up, I’ve had several oversea friends ask me questions about how the holiday is conducted in Japan. “Is it any different from how we do it?” they ask. Long story short, the answer is

Episode 5 Aloha! Thank you to those who have told me that they like reading what I am writing! I hope you continue to be enthusiastic and I hope I can improve on them also! There is a new club in the Betsuin. The Aloha

G. Sakamoto Above the onaijin hangs a plaque. On this plaque are three characters. These characters are read from the top, down. The characters are read “kai ho zo”. When we read Juseige together on Sunday mornings we read these characters. Kai means to open.

“Kindness-Helping a small fish in a local pond”             In my life, as in other people’s lives, there have been a number of hours of work dedicated to small, normal, everyday things, like washing dishes, cleaning the bathroom, picking up after various cats, dogs and/or

"A typhoon warning has been issued in Chiba prefecture." When I was casually browsing the news articles section on Yahoo Japan’s website, that headline suddenly jumped out at me!  Chiba prefecture is where I had lived and worked for about a year before coming to