Daifukuji Soto Zen Buddhist Temple

Sanghas and Buddhists from all traditions will be gathering online next Tuesday, May 4th (sorry for the earlier error) at 1 pm Hawai’i time. Everyone is invited to join this gathering which will be live streamed.

http://www.daifukuji.org/newsletter/newsletter.pdf Daifukuji's newsletter for the month of May is now available on the temple's website. We hope you will enjoy the articles and photos.

Invite to Photo Tour of Southeast Asia - Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam (via ZOOM) Sunday, April 18, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. by Betsy Kairen Morrigan... Please take a trip with me and experience the Buddhist temples, amazing ancient sites and modern cities, and the people, places, and food of Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In January and February 2020, I traveled to S.E. Asia for the first time. Thailand is an emerging bustling economy, very tourist oriented, with all signs in Thai and English, both Buddhist and Muslim. Angkor Wat, a major Buddhist temple complex located in Cambodia, is the largest religious temple in the world in a desperately poor country. Vietnam continually surprised me in its religious and geographic variety as I travelled 1500 miles north from Ho Chi Minh City (old Saigon) to Hanoi by bus and sleeper train. I went to Vietnam partly to do penance for the atrocities our country committed there during the twenty year Vietnam War. I’d like to invite you to join me on this trip through a Zoom presentation lasting about an hour on April 18 at 10:00 AM. Reverend Jiko will send you a Zoom link and all you have to do is click on it to enter. There will be plenty of time for your questions and responses. If you would like to receive the Zoom link, please give Rev. Jiko your name and email address ([email protected]).

A truly sincere talk by Soto Zen priest Chimyo Atkinson on her monastic training. Thank you, Rev. Chimyo.

An invitation from Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Funie Hsu, Chenxing Han: A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors On May 4th, 2021, exactly seven weeks, or forty-nine days, will have passed since the Atlanta shootings. In many Buddhist traditions, forty-nine days after death marks an important transition for the bereaved. As we pray for the liberation of those who have come before us, these ancestors will likewise alleviate our community’s pain, for ...we are interlinked with each other, across generations, in our collective liberation. The hourlong memorial will take place on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT). Our host for the livestreamed ceremony is the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles. The temple, restored after a groundswell of community support, will serve as the sacred space from which we can enact collective transformation. We will chant sutras, recite the names of our ancestors, heal in ceremony, and share Dharma perspectives from leading Asian American Buddhists to repair an important aspect of our nation’s racial karma. https://www.maywegather.org

While chanting the Heart Sutra, Kanho Yakushiji takes us into Japan’s temples and gardens.

A Buddhist hymn about the Buddha’s birth beautifully sung by the Taishoji Baikako choir.

For more information on May We Gather, please visit the website. https://www.maywegather.org/

We are happy to announce that the Chaminade Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Clinical Students have been very busy preparing for our second Spring event: "How Families Support Their Children and Teens During Covid 19." We hope you will be able to join us in learning what they have to share from their research. Topics to be Covered: *Younger Kids with ADHD and Anxiety *Mental Health and Stress Management for Students... *Gaming/Technology/Media (all age groups) High Schoolers Heading to College and College Students: Expectations/Demands and Parent-Youth Relationships Please have a look at the attached program outline (MS Word file); and to register for our event please click on the link below to our Eventbright page: https://tinyurl.com/mv5yux9p Mahalo. Clyde BDK Hawaii

In-person Yoga at Daifukuji is back! Instructor: Liz Aschenbrenner Location: Daifukuji Social Hall Hatha Yoga by donation offered Mondays 8:30-9:30 am. Please bring yoga mat, blanket, water, and any other props you like to use. Mask, temperature check, & social distancing required. Arrive 10 minutes early to sign in and complete a waiver.... Call or text questions to Liz, 808-345-1127. See more

Yoga instructor Ambika Rose is offering another series of awesome yoga classes via ZOOM and asking that donations for her classes go to Daifukuji. We thank Ambika for her great generosity and loving support of our temple. Suggested Sliding Scale for 6 classes: $60 to $120, as a Love Offering from your heart. Email for REGISTRATION & Link: [email protected]

Our new plaque showing that Daifukuji is listed on the National Register of Historic Places was fastened to the exterior wall of the temple today. Our history goes back to 1914 when the first minister, Rev. Kaiseki Kodama, arrived from Japan to establish Daifukuji. The current building, which is not the original structure, was dedicated in 1921, one hundred years ago.

How do we use Buddhist teachings to address social and political conflict, depolarize and heal? Mediator and facilitator Ryan Nakade, who teaches dialogue workshops, uses 4 Buddhist teachings in dialogue practice: Impermanence, Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and Compassion.

May We Gather is the first national Buddhist memorial service in response to anti-Asian violence. The ceremony will be live-streamed from Higashi Honganji Temple in Los Angeles, which was vandalized earlier this year. The event will be freely broadcast online and will bring together Asian American Buddhists and their allies to heal in community together. Please join us in supporting May We Gather.

Sanghas and Buddhists from all traditions will be gathering online tomorrow, April 27 at 1 pm Hawai’i time. Everyone is invited to join this gathering which will be live streamed.