There Should Not Be a Day that Is Spent Meaninglessly in Our Lives
While reading the chapter of “The four and eight kinds of suffering”, I realized that although I enjoy various things in my daily life,...
Family Unite, Brings Light to Town (Part 2)
(Read the previous part here) How difficult his hardships were! I can not give up because of such a trivial matter. If I give up on my...
Family Unite, Brings Light to Town (Part 1)
I was born in Nagaoka city, Niigata prefecture to parents who are Shinran followers. I chanted Shoshinge, The Hymn of True Faith, and I...
Thank You for Bringing Me into This World
Learning the Great Debt of Gratitude to Parents Many children got together at the Shinran Center in Hiroshima. There were watermelon...
Memento mori (Part 2)
(Read the previous part here) A kitchen and bathroom We like kitchens. When we ran home from school as children, we tended to make a bee...
Memento mori (Part 1)
An Ancient Roman Saying Memento mori is a word which was used in middle-age Europe. Memento means “remember”, and mori means “mortal”....
Frank Gives A Buddhist Lecture at Two Colleges
Frank Costelloe held lectures on Buddhism at two colleges in the Philippines recently. A professor whom Frank got to know through...
New Shinran Center in Oyabe City, Toyama Prefecture
Major cleanup by Shinran followers before the opening ceremony The news of the inauguration ceremony for the completion of a Shinran...
Putting a Life on the Line
Accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant A Shinran follower still coping with the aftermath of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi...
You Were Born For A Reason Published in Brazil
The Ardent Wish of Shinran Followers in Brazil has Finally been Realized. The Portuguese Version of You Were Born For A Reason (see the...
