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Jodo Mission of Hawaii
Bulletin - APRIL 2013
(#1197-0413)
Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St. Honolulu HI 96814 Address Service Requested
HBC BUDDHA DAY CELEBRATION
April 8th is the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. This birthday
celebration is known as "Buddha Day” and is also known as
“Hanamatsuri”. The Hawaii Buddhist Council cordially invites
everyone to the Buddha Day Service.
WHEN: Sunday, April 7, 2013
WHERE: Honpa Hongwanji Mission (1727 Pali Highway)
TIME: 9:00 am Buddha Day Service at Main Temple
10:30 am Entertainment at Social Hall
11:00 am-1:00 pm Games, Activities, Food Both, Bounce House
Admission: Free
Parking is limited: Please car pool if possible. Parking is also available at Hongwanji Mis-
sion School (enter from Iliahi St) and Soto Mission of Hawaii (1708 Nuuanu Ave).
Please join the Hawaii Buddhist Council on April 7th to celebrate Shakyamuni Buddha’s
birthday.
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Hanamido for Buddha Day Celebration
The Hawaii Buddhist Council Buddha Day celebration will be held on Sunday, April 7
beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii.
Pictured on the right is a Hanamido fully decorated with flowers,
with Baby Buddha in the center. This represents the Lumbini Garden
where Baby Buddha was born. Sweet tea or amacha is poured over the
statute of Buddha. The tea symbolizes the gentle rains that fell on the
day Buddha was born.
At the Buddha Day celebration, please be sure to bow in front of
Baby Buddha and pour some amacha over the Baby Buddha statute.
The Hawaii Buddhist Council is comprised of the following Buddhist temples: Higashi
Hongwanji Mission, Honpa Hongwanji Mission, Jodo Mission of Hawaii, Koyasan Shingon Mission,
Nichiren Mission of Hawaii, Soto Mission of Hawaii and Tendai Mission of Hawaii. It is always
nice to get together with fellow Buddhists! Please come and celebrate Buddha’s Birthday!
Sewing Circle
April 13 and 27, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Any interested person is
welcome to participate.
♫ ♪ Jodo Mission of Hawaii ♫
Children’s Choir “Malama”
Our Children’s Choir meeting in
April to be announced). Any child ages 5 to 8 years old can join.
Children will sing mainly Japanese songs
and Buddhist gathas. Practice will be in Jap-
anese.
Sunday School
We welcome children to join our Sun-
day School. Let’s enjoy studying
Onembutsu by doing various activities.
4/28 @ 10:45 a.m.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FUJINKAI (women’s association)
No meeting in April * * * * * * * *
Oahu Rengo Fujinkai
April 21 at Haleiwa
YBA
No Meeting
in April
♫ ♪ Ukulele by Stuart Nago ♫
Please come and enjoy uku-
lele music by Stuart Nago
on Sunday, April 28 at
10:00 a.m. after Sunday Ser-
vice. He may also play his
guitar.
Jodo Mission Hanamatsuri
Will be held on Sunday, April 28, at the temple. We
look forward to seeing all of you at the service.
WHEN: Sunday, April 28, 2013
WHERE: Jodo Mission of Hawaii
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
Bits of Knowledge of Buddhism Vol. 26 Think Different (Apr. 2013)
By Rev. Yasushiro Watanabe
A Buddhist walks the road that leads to Enlightenment. We be-lieve in the nature of Buddha in our mind and follow the teaching of Buddha. We
have to think and behave as Buddha and his disciples have done. Now, I’d like to
talk about a promise as an example of Buddha’s thinking. Through this story I hope
we will learn the process of Buddha’s thinking and practice it in our lives.
It is important to keep our promises. Parents or teachers often say to us,
“Keep your word” or “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” That is our hope. Politi-
cians make campaign pledges. Business people make contracts. The world is full of promises. It is essential for us to keep them for our prosperity.
However, I think there is no promise to keep. In fact, there is no promise to
keep exactly as it is expected. That is Buddha’s way of thinking. We can say “Think Different” in the words of Steve Jobs. For example, let us imagine an appointment
to meet someone. To reach the meeting place on time is easy to say but hard to do.
Many factors can be obstacles to our plans: health, weather, and traffic. Even if we
met the schedule as promised, we might need to fine-tune the time and place. In that sense, the promise is not kept perfectly. It is very lucky to see each other at
the right place on time. That’s why we appreciate people’s effort and luck to fulfill
promises.
A Buddhist doesn’t accept the worldly rule in its original form. People think
Buddhism as nihilistic because Buddhists often deny the idea. However, to reject the
idea is not the end but the start. We have to think about it deeply and differently to
make sure of the truth. And then we restructure the facts and reevaluate the world-ly rule. To have Buddha’s eye, we should practice the way of thinking and try to re-
veal the realities of life.
For another example, we tend to think that death is the end of life. But, ac-cording to the Jodo Shu teaching, death is the start of eternal life in the Pure Land.
It is true that we miss the deceased, but we can live together with our loved one in
a different way. A bad situation is a stepping stone to become better. We can find a
way to success. To do that, we should observe the situation carefully beyond the visible fact, because the fact that we look at now is a kind of virtual reality. I think
that our recognition is always wrong. We have to challenge the genuine truth be-
hind truths. That is the Buddha’s way of thinking.
Let us go back to the story of promises. After all, there is no appointment to
be kept perfectly in this world. However, Amida Buddha’s promise is for sure be-
cause he attains Enlightenment. We believe in the original vow which He has met.
When we call his holy name in the last moment, Amida Buddha comes to us and
takes us to the Pure Land. Also, we hope that death is a fresh start for liberation. Our belief and hope are serious and true. Sayonara, good-bye, or Aloha are not
words of separation but words of wishing to meet again. Please remember that the
Buddha’s thinking makes us embrace our suffering and reveal the way to peace.
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Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai
Installation of Officers: The officers
for 2013-2015 were installed on Sunday,
February 24, 2013:
President: Sally Hayashi
Vice President: Akiko Nishiyama
Recording Secretary: Doris Soma
Assistant Recording
& Corresponding
Secretary: EdnaAjimura
Treasurer: Yukari Narashiba
Assistant Treasurer: Tomoko Hisamoto Auditors: Yoshiko Kitagawa
Harue Maki
Peggy Miyamoto
Shuji Rev. Yubun Narashiba
Ministers from Japan: Four
ministers from Japan were in Hono-
lulu before returning to Japan.
Front row left is Rev. Chika
Shimizu of Kyoto. Back row left is
Rev. Maras Minoru Tanaka of Hy-
ogo Rev. Yuki Sawada of Kyoto
and Rev. Masayuki Takeda of Wa-
kayama. Missing in photo was Rev.
Yuken Kikuchi their guide who took
this photo.
Sunday School Excursion: Sunday School students went to
visit Teddy Bear World in Wai-
kiki. Looks like the children en-
joyed themselves. It’s not often
they get to go on an excursion!
Fujinkai honored their keiro members
(members over 80 years old) with Sekihan. This
photo of keiro also includes their male keiro
supporters.
They studied in Los Angeles for a week, then traveled to Maui
for two days and two days on Oahu. Pagee 4
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The Introduction of Buddhism into Japan (7)
From Kamakura through Tokugawa Periods (1192 - 1868)
PURE LAND BUDDHISM
The first budding of the Pure Land concept was already seen at the time of Prince Regent Shotoku (574-622),
having been influenced by the Chinese Pure Land thoughts. This faith passes through the
Nara (710-794) and Heian (794-1192) periods and gradually went wide and deep, taking
root in the minds of the Japanese people. It was however, during the end of the Heian and
the beginning of the Kamakura periods when this faith was formed into independent de-
nominations in Japan.
Even before Honen the founder of the Jodo denomination, there were such priests as
Kuya (903-972) and Ryomin, the founder of the Yuzu-nembutsu denomination, who
taught the teaching of Pure Land Buddhism. It was, however, Honen in whom we can see
a landmark of any historical importance.
The worship of Amitabha (Amida) Buddha, the Lord of the Pure Land, gathering
strength in the Heian period was systematized in Kamakura period by Honen, and worthy
of particular attention as it is the first establishment of an indigenous Japanese Buddhist denomination, though we
could see its forerunning thoughts both in China and Japan.
At the end of the Heian and beginning of the Kamakura periods, it was indeed necessary for the commoners to
have a religion which would give them peace of mind amidst the continuing civil wars, caused by conflicts
among Samurai warriors, as well as various natural disasters. Tendai and Shingon, the two esoteric type of Bud-
dhist denominations founded in the Heian period, had great popularity among the aristocrats. It was, however,
very difficult for the commoners to follow these teachings to acquire the tranquil mind, since their doctrines were
too complicated and profound. Even the Pure Land (Jodo) adherents at that time strictly observed many precepts
of the religious life by practicing good deeds and chanting the sacred phrase of Na-mu-a-mi-da-butsu
(Nembutsu). That is to say, Nembutsu recitation in the from of Na-mu- a-mi-da-butsu was a kind of a religious
practicing and, therefore, they had believed that it was though their own efforts to be able to recite the name of
Amitabha Buddha. On the contrary, what Honen was seeking was a simple teaching and practice which was ap-
plicable to all people. According to him, the recitation of Nembutsu is the best method of attaining birth in the
Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha because it is supported by the power of Amitabha’s Original Vow. Honen cast
aside all other practices and disciplines and selected only the Nembutsu, which he regarded as the best and easiest
way for attaining birth in the Pure Land
This teaching of Honen was inherited by one of his disciples, Shinran, the founder of
the Jodo-shin denomination, and became further simplified. Jodo-shin or simply Shin de-
nomination, which is followed today by the majority of the Buddhist population of Japan,
is traced back to its founder, Shinran. Strangely enough, however, according to his own
words, he had no intention of founding a denomination. He first met this Pure Land
teaching through Honen, and became his disciple for life. He kept up a perpetual recita-
tion of the Nembutsu until his death-bed. Shinran himself simply tried to follow what his
master Honen taught. Nevertheless, we can find a great difference between them, judging
from lives they spent and word they spoke, which will be mentioned in the next chapter.
After the death of Shinran in 1262, at the age of ninety, Jodo-Shin denomination be-
came independent of Jodo denominations of Honen. In its twelfth generation, the
Hongwan-ji Temple, whose abbot had been the descendants of Shinran was divided into two branches: Higashi
(East) Hongwan-ji and Nishi (West) Hongwan-ji school, because of difference in the problem of succession. To-
day their teaching and faith are the same, with the only difference begin in historical tradition. It may be note-
worthy that these two Jodo-shin school, the Higashi and Nishi Hongwan-ji, are the only Buddhist denominations
which have descendants of the founder as their abbots, since Shinran was the only person among founded of all
Japanese Buddhist denominations and school who had his own off-sprigs.
From Understanding Japanese Buddhism
Published by The Japan Buddhist Federation
Honen
Shinran
Obituaries
The Jodo Mission of Hawaii extends
its sincere condolences to the family
members and loved ones of the following
members who have recently left this
world for the Pure Land.
Takeo Yoneda 91
Momoyo Yoshida 95
Margaret Tamaye Tomita 93
Jodo Mission Office Hours:
Monday to Saturday
8am—5pm
Sunday & Holidays
8am—3pm
Phone: 949-3995
Website: www.jodo.us
Rev. Yubun Narashiba Head Minister
Rev. Kanjun Nakano Resident Minister
Rev. Dwight
Nakamura Retired Minister
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What is “Perpetual Memorial
Service?” (Eitaikyo)
This record of a perpetual memorial service and is called Eitaikyo in Japanese. When the date of death occurs for a person listed on this record, the ministers pray for that individual during the morn-ing service. The prayers will continue each year for as long as Jodo Mission exists. Anyone can be included in it. You may put your own name on the list, too. This also helps when it is difficult to have memorial services. We also wel-come you to attend the morning service at 8:30am.
How to apply
Stop by the office, and fill out the application form. Each name costs $200. After the application is accepted, the name will be listed on the record.
Rev. Yasuhiro
Watanabe Resident Minister
Apology for March Eitaikyo List: We
apologize for incorrectly spelling the deceased
person’s name in March Bulletin:
3/7: Suematsu Namba
NOKOTSUDO (Columbarium)
VASES
Before the O-Bon season arrives,
we plan to clean the Nokotsudo (or Col-
umbarium) which has many, many vases.
Saturday, June 15th is our target date.
If you have personal vases, artificial
plants and flowers, would you please
take them home. We realize that you
may bring a special vase for your use and
then when you come the next time, you
cannot find it and so you bring another
one.
We do not want to break your spe-
cial vase and that may happen when the
Nokotudo people are cleaning the vases
or if there are too many vases on the
shelf.
1 Anzaemon Kajioka The Kajioka & Morita Family Yae Ogata Mistuko Arakawa Shimoyo Karamatsu Seiichi Kimura George Kaname Sakuda
2 Ryosaku Maeda The Maeda Family Shuzaburo Kunihiro The Kunihiro Family Masao Kamihara James Isamu Tomita
3 Kinjuro Ajimura The Ajimura Family Katsuichi Takeda The Takeda Family Takeo Kuniyuki Katsusaburo Yamamoto Kikue Kubota
4 Masayo Kusunoki The Kusunoki Family Shinichi Amakawa The Amakawa Family Hitomi Miyaura
5 Tsune Isobe The Isobe Family Mamoru Najita Isematsu Takenaka Kazumitsu Kaya
7 Yasu Hirohama The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kikujiro Uchiumi Naomi Fuse Johnson Fay Johnson Yumi Yokoyama Isaburo Terada Toru Yamane
8 Tadaichi Aoki The Aoki Family Kojiro Okamoto The Okamoto & Nakamoto Family Shigekichi Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Naotaka Hayashi Misue Imamoto Yoshio Takara Masamitsu Nakano
9 Shizuko Hironaka The Hironaka & Ishimoto Family Fumie Iwasaki Tokio Nishikawa
10 Tomi Arakawa Matsuji Yamamoto
11 Tsunekichi Matsuno The Matsuno Family Sadako Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Teru Sakuda The Sakuda Family Sada Harada
The Kohatsu Family Yoshiko Hara
12 Naka Nakamura Toshiko Umemoto 13 Yasuko Daitoku The Daitoku & Fujimoto Family Kayo Doi Tsuyo Uchiumi Zentoku Uyehara Yasu Iguchi Masashi Yamane
14 Heiji Yasumoto The Yasumoto Family Yoshi Okamura (2) Kiyoto Kawaoka
15 Toso Kamisato The Kamisato Family The Aoki Family Mikayo Higashimura Toshiro Kawabe The Kawabe Family Masakane Himuro Kenji Hayashi Toshiko Sumida Nishimoto William Hatsuichi Kishimoto
16 Bunsuke Isobe The Isobe Family Ryu Tsurusaki The Tsurusaki & Inada Family Masatoshi Umemoto Patsy Hisako Himuro Mitsuyoshi Gushikuma
17 Kenichi Namba The Namba Family Tsuneharu Imaguchi
18 Toyokichi Iguchi The Iguchi & Sasaki Family Eki Mineishi The Mineishi Family Yojiro Watanabe
19 Jun Kunihiro The Kunihiro Family Motoo Ueda The Ueda Family Maka Tamanaha The Tamanaha Family Matsutaro Shimizu Isamu Yoshioka Thomas Lai
20 Hiroshi Ohta Mantsu Takara Shozaemon Matsumoto Mildred Yukiko Ito
21 Naomi Takara Genichi Tamura
22 Kyoichi Koyama The Koyama Family Chieko Miyakawa Hiroshi Nakai The Nakai Family
Kazu Saiki Kyoichi Koyama Francis Sadamu Furutani, Jr.
23 Bishop Sensho Fukuda Eiko Gushikuma Shigeichi Aoki Moushi Uyehara Shigeo Tom Muranaka
24 Setsuyo Misawa (2) The Misawa Family The Watanabe Family Yoshio Kunimoto
25 Michizo Imaguchi (2) The Imaguchi Family Yasuko Ueda Tsunegoro Iwamoto Soichi Sakai
26 Kikujiro Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Makoto Takahashi Masato Ishida Tokue Uehara
27 Misae Umemoto The Umemoto Family The Ida Family The Matsushima Family Shizue Nose Robert Murakami Haruko Teruya
28 Rokusuke Yanagihara The Yanagihara Family Iwakichi Matsuda The Toichi Funamoto Family Misao Yamane Masa Miyao Okamoto Ume Kawamura
29 Mitsuyo Kamioka The Kamioka & Hanaoka Family Tatsuyo Ohara (2) The Ohara Family Tsuchi Kajioka Heijiro Asai Tsune Uesugi Koji Kamioka Manzuchi Higashi Kazuto Hamada Hatsumi Nakamura Yoshiyo Yanagihara Mitsuyo Kanai Yoshida
30 Tsuru Matsuno Esa Yamane Kume Nakamoto The Nakamoto & Sakagawa Family The Matsuno Family The Yamane Family & Harada Family Shigetaka Imada Miyoko Shindo
EITAIKYO (Perpetual Memorial Service) for April
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