Answers to questions frequently asked at the temple.
Now Available on Amazon I enjoy daily quotation or phrase a day books, and they are widely available for various topics one might be interested in. I’ve missed having one devoted solely to the Lotus Sutra. It became a desire of mine to have such a book several years ago in fact. I began working on this project in 2014, can you believe that? First my chaplain work and training got in the way of…
Now available from Amazon the newest edition of the standard service for Myosho-ji. This is the format we follow for our regular Sunday services which are streamed live using Zoom. Included in this new edition are extra prayers which you may find useful for various occasions in your daily life. To those presented in the previous edition I’ve added even more. Also I’ve introduced gathas and how you might use this type of Buddhist practice…
Historical Background of Standards and Rituals in Nichiren Shu This will be the first in a series of lectures on how the standards for conducting services in Nichiren Shu came about. The process was not always smooth nor was it fast. It was a joint project between a few Nichiren sects and took much longer than originally anticipated. There were many obstacles along the way until a book was published to standardize and codify the…
Each year the subject of resolutions and goals comes up around the beginning of the new year. Most years I do list things I would like to accomplish during the year, these would be the goals for the year. And then the list of things I determine I will work on to achieve a particular goal which may represent a different way of living. This year I have several huge tasks I’ve taken on which…
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