Dharma Articles

Well, it finally happened to me.  I had my email address “hacked” and an email was sent to those on my contact list.  The email said that I would like to ask for a favor from them and it was sent from my email address. 

There are allegedly over 84,000 kinds of sutras preached by Sakyamuni Buddha, the historical Buddha who lived over 2,500 years ago. The number of the sutras corresponds with how many people Sakyamuni Buddha had listened to with their conflicts and afflictions and talked to in

Thank you everyone. We successfully held our first in person Obon services and Festival in three years. It was wonderful to meet so many people on the grounds of the temple and in the Hondo. An enormous thank you to Ken Kamei and the committee

What a summer...shooting incidents at places like Uvalde, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Laguna Hills...further evidence of global warming with continuous wildfires, record high temperatures and worsening drought...deepening political division across the US and Europe… And then, there was San Jose OBON 2022! We did it!  We ALL

There is so much going on in the world that demands our attention. I scroll through news feeds looking for bits of information about politics, Ukraine, the environment. The conditions of human beings that demand our attention to help with hunger, poverty, shelter. Across the

Amazing!  July is finally here and what does that mean?  Obon, of course.  I hope that you all have heard that we will once again host an in-person Obon.  As we emerge from the long pandemic, this year’s Obon will be slightly different from what