Part 1 – Hozro: To be in harmony with one’s environment. In recent years we have been living with the consequence of rapid climate change around the world. The last few months have been especially noteworthy in the northeast U.S. and Canada. Up until recently...
It’s summertime. Those of us living in the Northeast of North America are treated to the changing of the seasons. Each season has its advantages and disadvantages. Not only the temperature differentials but the smells of the air, the quality of the wind on one’s skin,...
We perceive human immigration primarily as a political issue today. It has been a social phenomenon as long as there have been people. Immigration has been a feature of hominid life from long before Homo sapien sapiens. Homo erectus immigrated out of Africa to Eurasia...
In discussing behavior in the hondo during a dharma talk recently I mentioned that the genkan (entranceway between the outside to the inner, the sanctuary, is a liminal space. A space between the sacred and the mundane or profane. Stepping across the sill at the door...
‘Symbols; institutional, religious, commercial, are all around us. We respond to them based upon our experiences with the entity that the symbol represents, as well as the visual message conveyed by the graphics and an understood meaning. When an image which has a...
‘Mid-February I had the opportunity to participate in the ‘Hizmet International Conference: Responses to Contemporary Challenges’ held in Long Beach, California. What is Hizmet, what was the conference about and what is Hizmet’s relationship to Tendai Buddhist...
