Walking into the hondo (the main building) is a sensory and serene experience. Taking off one’s shoes in the genkan (entryway) and walking up the few steps, stepping over the sill into the sanctuary, one travels from the realm of the mundane to the realm of the sacred...
Tendai Buddhist Institute is in a beautiful rural area nestled in the Berkshire foothills. The bird feeders are always packed with goldfinches, barn finches, blue jays, red winged blackbirds, mourning doves, red breasted grossbeaks, and many more, while the barn...
There are a handful of science and social science research papers that have had a profound effect on the way I see the world. A few will illustrate the point; a group of research articles on the effect of different spectra (colors) of light on human behavior by John...
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...
