I would like to talk about Kobayashi Issa and Haiku, well technically senryu as practice. Haiku’s focus us usually nature and senryu is like haiku but the focus is primarily on human nature and emotion. For today, when I say haiku I mean both haiku and senryu. So who is this Issa fellow. He…
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A Bejeweled Life
Dharma Talk – Aesha Drozdowski Last week, my employer initiated a webinar series inviting all colleagues to participate. The topics will vary but will center around how we can support one another as we recover from several waves of the pandemic. The first topic was “Caring for Each Other: Managing Moral Distress”. It provided an…
Dharma Glimpse: Learning Patience
Dharma Glimpse – Sharon Aaron The Sangha has been part of my life for about the last 8 years. The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha have been front and center! I love my practice and the opportunity I have had to learn, to grow, and to serve. That said I was very surprised and…
Dharma Glimpse: ” I can see clearly now, the rain is gone “
DHARMA GIMPLSE BY JOSEPH CALDIERO Here is the Dharma glimpse; Shinran Shonin said, “Although I too am within Amida’s grasp passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him; nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always. “ quoted in Shinjin, 17 In light of this statement I’ll tell you a story to help…
Dharma Glimpse: Imperfection
Rachel Kosin-Yo Becker A few weeks ago, our Sensei gave a talk on imperfection. I thought the fact that he gave this talk was serendipitous. Earlier that morning I had walked by some spots on the carpeting in the hall of my house. Looking at the spots I thought, “Ugh! Why did I pick this…
ZEN KOANS No Imitation and Beyond Reason
DHARMA GLIMPSE BY AESHA Drozdowski – OCTOBER 2ND 2021 As some of you may be aware, I am in the process of completing the Bright Dawn Lay Ministry program. Bright Dawn Center for Oneness was founded by Rev. Gyomay Kubose and spiritual leadership was passed on to his son, Reverend Koyo Kubose in 1998. The…
GOOD MEDICINE
Good Medicine – Retreat Reflections by Lindsay Zaiyo Freed Nostalgic reflections of our summer retreat in the Uinta mountains regularly tug at my memory. It was, in one word – bliss. A short but very sweet time to be fully present and deliciously silent; a time to savor the depths of awareness and enjoy the…
JUNETEENTH
Dharma Talk by Rachel Koshin-yo Today is an important day. Today, June 19, in 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Texas were told that slavery had ended. This event happened two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed and 2 months after Robert E Lee had surrendered at Appomattox. Today honors the day that the last…
TOO MANY BUDDHAS
DHARMA GLIMPSE BY RACHEL BECKER MAY 19 2021 When we packed up our belongings, I volunteered to take the alter, the decorations for the alter, and anything else that couldn’t be fit in other members’ spaces into my home. I ended up with artificial orchids, small tables, and 4 Buddhas – 2 of them VERY…
Way of Oneness
Dharma Glimpse my Maurena Grossman While trying to decide what to talk about I revisited the book Bright Dawn: Discovering Your Everyday Spirituality by Rev. Koyo Kubose. At the end of the book there is a section on the author, which I had not read before. I learned that when Rev. Koyo Kubose, an American…
Everyday Nembutsu 