Our Souls Are Weeping for Help (Part 2)
* Continuation of yesterday's article Our Souls Are Weeping for Help (Part 1), click this line to read. * The Secret Warehouse Each of us...
Our Souls Are Weeping for Help (Part 1)
Why Do We Feel Alone in Our Life’s Journey? The Buddha once said, “If we represent the life of mankind with the season, it would be...
Measure for Measure
You often hear in Buddhism of the importance of practicing kindness. For example, there are “The Six Good Deeds,” and “The Seven...
The Big Gap between Mere Knowledge and an Actual Experience
The other day I visited Knotts Berry Farm with some friends. To be honest, I really like such thrill rides, so I enjoyed myself a lot. I...
What is it that We Are Born For?
It is the beginning of a memorable year in which we will celebrate the 55th anniversary of Shinrankai’s establishment. At the end of last...
We Want True Freedom and Equality
It’s been two months since I moved to LA. I’ve never imagined what it would be like to share Buddhism in an English-speaking country. Now...
What We Choose To Believe In Becomes Our Faith
The end of the world was supposed to happen on May 21 at 6pm, according to a Mr. Harold Camping, an uncertified fundamentalist minister,...
Daily Lessons
The other day I went to the post office to mail an item. It was a birthday card, for someone living abroad. This person’s birthday was...
Persisting Sense of Emptiness Eradicated by Buddhism
My hometown Ehime prefecture is a region richly endowed with nature. My father is a hardworking tangerine farmer and my mother is a...
What is the Real ‘Me’?
Certain though we are that this one thing above all else is what we know the best, the one thing most unknowable is nothing but the self....
