This month the Tendai-shu New York Betsuin, Tendai Buddhist Institute, will host a Public Tokudo (Ordination) Ceremony. What makes this different from the Betsuin tokudo ceremonies you may have witnessed, why is this important and why is ordination, as a concept,...
First – Thank you everyone who attended and participated in the Spring cleanup day on April 30th. We got a lot done, spruced up the grounds, and enjoyed a sangha activity. There will be another clean-up day on June 18th, the weekend before the Public Tokudo ceremony...
The March one-day O-Higan retreat was a reset in several ways. It was the first retreat in over two years. It addressed resilience in a Buddhist context. Resilience is the ability to recover or adjust easily to misfortune or change. To survive the last few years we...
By the end of this month, the Spring Equinox will be upon us, although it does not currently feel like it outside in Upstate New York. The equinox is when there is equal light and dark to our day and is meant to be a representation of balance between extremes. The...
We will start this Jushoku’s Meanderings with a remembrance of Thích Nhất Hạnh, who died on January 22nd. He was a Vietnamese monk, prolific author, poet, translator and influential contributor to Buddhism outside Asia. He said of his own imminent death, “I am a...
