This will be published as I am in flight back to the States. Japan Standard Time is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time. One of the oddities of traveling from Japan to the East coast of the States is that I’m leaving Japan at 4 PM on June 14 and arriving in . . . → Read More: Reflections on Leaving Japan: Part 2
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As I write this (11th of June) it is the three month anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. For those of us not in the tsunami and nuclear disaster area life goes on pretty normally. Concurrently there is always an undercurrent of awareness about the devastation which occurred . . . → Read More: Reflections on Leaving Japan: Part 1 Tamonin Part 1 – Bishamonten-do One of the readers asked if I could write more about Tamonin. It is a good day to do so, danka (sangha members) started showing up yesterday morning about 7:30 for a clean-up / work day. It’s funny that sangha members at Tendai Buddhist Institute are doing the . . . → Read More: Japan 7th – Tamonin Part 1 – Bishamonten-do A preface – This morning I received a brief message from Ryushin and Shingaku. The tornado that wreaked havoc through central Massachusetts was nearby, but they are uninjured. They are without electricity and the roads are still mostly impassable, but they are otherwise OK. Thanks for letting me know Ryushin. The blog The . . . → Read More: Japan 6th – Religious Observance I did a small laundry last week the morning that the typhoon rains began and had to bring the clothes in from the clothesline and hang them inside. This morning when I put on a fleece that had been washed that day it smelled like spoiled milk, and realized that it . . . → Read More: Japan 3rd Living at Tamonin Temple reminds me of the ambivalent attitudes that the Japanese have toward their local Buddhist temple and Shinto shrines. To the Japanese Buddhism is not so much a religion as part of their culture and a worldview that informs their daily life. Japan being a postmodern society, people . . . → Read More: Japan 2nd Hello from Tamonin (Bishamonten Temple) in Matsuzaki, Japan. I’ve been in Japan for about two weeks. Tamami and I arrived on May 13th and she left Japan Sunday, the 22nd While Tamami was here she helped me get settled into Tamonin, the temple we live at in Japan. We had an . . . → Read More: Japan – The Arrival |
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