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 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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