Dharma Articles

“When foolish beings of delusion and defilement awaken shinjin, They realize that birth-and-death is itself nirvana; Without fail they reach the land of immeasurable light And universally guide sentient beings to enlightenment.” CWS p72 This verse is from Shoshinge composed by Shinran and included in

First, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who prepared and attended the welcome party for my parents’ visit at the end of July. We were very happy to see all of you at the service and party! We are able

Hopefully as you read this the Betsuin will have reopened. There will still be precautions and protocols to follow that will help keep everyone safe. Over the past year and a half we have been taking steps to make the facilities of the temple safe

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