Archived Posts
Contemplating Disease – Part 5c – Comforting the Ill – September 3, 2018
Building a Sangha Lecture Given in Raleigh, NC – Podcast – May 7, 2019
Why and How Deep Conversations – Three Themes to Guide Me – April 24, 2017
Three Themes to Guide Me http://ryusho.org/blog/?p=7155 The title is perhaps a bit misleading in that I don’t propose to have all the answers. At best I have a few strategies which you may or may not find helpful. I think the best outcome I could hope for would be that this somehow prompts you to think about your interactions with people and how they might be different. To even consider what is missed in conversations…
Move In Day
There are a lot of boxes in every room. I am thankful that there are fewer than ever before. If the boxes there are the majority are books and about half will go into various temple libraries soon. Of the remaining books they are primarily art related, museum exhibition catalogs, various fine artists mostly of the Bauhaus era and many from the DaDa. Oh what a visual delight they are. In there are some out…
Deep Conversations: Three Themes to Guide Me – February 21, 2017
As I was preparing to move from Charlotte to Syracuse there were many goodbyes to be said. Some people asked me if I was going to have a going away party or if I wanted to have one. I had thought about the notion of a going away party before it was brought up so I already knew what my answer was going to be. In all cases I politely declined and tried to offer…
Lectures on the Historical Background of Standards and Rituals in Nichiren Shu
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…