New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Service Schedule

It’s almost time to welcome in a new year, 2018.  This year as in years past Myosho-ji will celebrate this occasion with a series of services.  At this time our intent is to put to rest the things which we have accomplished as well as the things yet to be finished and reflect on the outcomes and ways of moving forward.  This is a time to reflect on our past behaviors with  a gentle heart…

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Giving Tuesday Today – November 28, 2017

Here is a list of Nichiren Order of North America Sanghas and links that have been provided where you can make your donations.  Please consider donating today. Nichiren Buddhist Sangha of Greater New England – www.newenglandbuddhist.org Houston – Myoken-ji – no link provided yet Seattle – Enkyo-ji – www.seattlebuddhist.org Rochester – Shoezan Enkyo-ji – www.rochesterbuddhist.org Buffalo Sangha – Enkyo-ji – no link provided yet Spokane – Enkyoji Buddhist Sangha of Spokane – www.enkyojibuddhistnetwork.org Syracuse – Myosho-ji…

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Giving Tuesday – It’s Important – Please Donate

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday.  I wrote a few days ago a post encouraging you to think about making a donation to a temple on this day.  It came to my mind that perhaps you may not know which are NONA temples and sanghas and how you can donate to them.  Here is a listing and links I have received so far.  Missing links will be updated as I receive them. Here is a list: Nichiren…

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Daily Lotus Book Trivia

Hopefully by this time you have at least seen a photo of the cover of the Daily Lotus, a collection of Lotus Sutra quotations.  Depicted on the front cover is a Dharma Wheel.  Over the years I have collected photos of utility hole covers, man-hole covers if you will, that are decorated with the Dharma Wheel, the universal symbol of Buddhism.  I’ve found it curious that such an image would be used and have often…

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