Things that interest me personally and are also important.
Good morning (13 March 2011 Sunday Morning Service). Thank you all for coming to the temple today and thank you to all the folks who have joined us online as well. Today we gathered together as a Sangha and celebrated the day praising the Lotus Sutra by reciting passages and chanting the Odaimoku, the sacred title. As it says in the sutra we have partaken of the medicine, which is good in flavor and color…
Today I am offering to you an interesting post, diverging a bit from posting about strictly Buddhist topics. I ran across these images while going through my photos for my upcoming book Contemplating Illness. These are photos that I took when I visited the US National POW Museum in Andersonville, GA back in 2004. Andersonville is in a very remote corner of the state of Georgia and I visited there on the return trip to…
Here is the audio recording (I forgot to turn the video recording on during the talk so there is only audio) of the Dharma Talk I gave on April 28, 2019. This is the first part of teachings on Bowing to the Three Treasures, Rai Sanbo Kan. One of the shortcomings of my English language videos is that it is difficult for foreign language speakers to understand what I am saying. I am trying out…
Back in April of 2015 I posted this lecture I gave on the Senji Sho, one of Nichiren’s Five Major Writings. One of the shortcomings of my English language videos is that it is difficult for foreign language speakers to understand what I am saying. I am trying out a new application that creates text files of speech. For the first time I am using it on previously recorded materials. My thinking is that folks…
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