Happenings around Myosho-ji, Wonderful Voice Buddhist Temple
Skateboarding Go Skateboarding Day Today is Go Skateboarding Day! I’ll confess I have only been on a skateboard, the modern version that is, only once in my life. For those as old as I am the idea of riding on a skateboard conjures up two radically different images. Skateboarding when I was a kid amounted to taking a pair of old metal roller skates, breaking them apart and nailing them to the bottom of an…
These photos (click More Link if necessary) are from my recent trip to Japan. I was attending the Nichiren Shu World Overseas Ministers Meetings. The photos in this collection are from my visit to Mount Minobu where the head temple, Kuon-ji, of Nichiren Shu is located. The parade pictures are from the celebrations commemorating the arrival of Nichiren Shonin at Mount Minobu, in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Worth It Sometimes life can seem either excruciatingly difficult, maybe even impossible. Other times it may feel so boring, plain, maybe even excruciatingly boring. Of course it isn’t always one or the other, but as we labor through our days we may have a sense that things never change, or if they do it isn’t always for the better.
Dreaming I am not sure if you can remember back to your childhood or to high school and recall what your dreams or aspirations were. I know that I can not. Some of my oldest memories of hopes and dreams are from the time both shortly before and after I became Buddhist. “I never dreamed of having this store of treasures myself. It has come to me unexpectedly.” (Lotus Sutra, Chapter IV)
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