Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Bulletin - JANUARY 2014

(#1206-0114)

Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki St.

Honolulu HI 96814

Address Service Requested

***New Year’s Greetings *** Gensho Hara, Bishop

The Buddha’s vows are many as many as forty-eight.

But the Nembutsu alone was revealed as the practice with the greatest karmic relationship.

If you earnestly think of the Buddha, the Buddha in turn will think of you.

If you seek the Buddha with your whole heart, the Buddha in turn will receive you.

-- From the Chinese Pure Land Master Shantao’s hymns

Wishing you and your family a very happy and peaceful New Year!

The New Year represents new beginnings, starting life afresh with renewed enthusiasm and en-

ergy. The fresh air in the morning of the first day of the year always feels extra special to me as it is

filled with anticipation of the new things the year will bring. It is also a time to set new goals. In Ja-

pan, the word, hatsu or “first, beginning,” signifies the first actions we take during the first few days

of the New Year, such as hatsumoude (first shrine or temple visit), hatsuyume (first dream), or hatsu-

gama (first tea ceremony).

Speaking of new beginnings, I hope that as many of you will join in the Betsuin’s observances

and functions as well as the statewide functions such as the Hakalau Jodo Mission’s 110th Anniversary

Service (Feb. 15), the Youth Retreat (March), Hawaii Buddhist Council Hanamatsuri (Buddha Day;

April), Hilo Meishoin’s 50th Relocation Anniversary, Aloha State Meisho YBA Convention in Hilo

(June 6–8), and Laypersons’ Association/Rengo Fujinkai Joint Convention in Hilo (September 19 –

21), and Wailuku Jodo Mission’s Centennial (Oct. 25). I am also pleased to announce that the long-

awaited, revised Otsutome Book will be published and distributed this spring.

Please remember that each and every one of you makes a difference at your temple. Let us join

together to work towards a brighter future for the Betsuin and Hawaii Jodo Shu.

Embraced by the Wisdom and Compassion of Amida Buddha, let us call Amida Buddha’s sa-

cred Name, Namu Amida Butsu, daily and live our lives happily and peacefully to the fullest through-

out 2014.

With Gassho.

New Year’s Greetings

Message from Kyodan Board President

Dear Friends,

Aloha! I hope you had a year filled with great memories with family and

friends. Even among some of our sad and challenging experiences, we have grown

stronger and more grateful of life. As practitioners of Buddhism, we are able to over-

come difficult situations and appreciate everything around us. Through the teachings, we understand

how our existence can play a role in spreading love and compassion. Thank you for every kind ges-

ture you have done for others and all you have contributed to our world. When it is our time to move

on to the afterlife, we will leave everlasting imprints of our love here with all those we have touched

and we will continue to do the same wherever we go to next. I wish you a wonderful 2014 and may

peace and joy be with you forever.

Love, Jon Riki Karamatsu

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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

As members of Jodo Mission of Hawaii, you are cordially welcome to attend the 2014

General Membership Meeting on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 10:30 a.m., following the

Gyoki-e Service (Honen Shonin Memorial Service) in the temple. Please join us. Following

the religious and business portion, please join us for a New Year’s party (see below).

Shinnenka i 新年会

New Year’s Party

Please join us for our New Year’s

Party following the Annual General

Membership meeting. All members

and friends are invited. Come and

meet your Board of Directors.

Date: Sunday, January 26

Time: 11:30 am

(after Gyoki-e service and

General Membership Meeting)

Place: Jodo Mission Social Hall

HYAKU-SAI

百 歳

To reach 100 years old or Hyaku-

sai is a precious age. Many of our

members are in their nineties. Are there

any members who will be100 years of

age by January 26, 2014? Please con-

tact Jodo Mission to let us know.

We would like to recognize these

Hyaku-sai members on Sunday, Janu-

ary 26, 2014 at our New Year’s Party

which follows our 10 a.m. Sunday Ser-

vice and General Membership Meet-

ing.

Thank you.

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New Year’s Greetings

Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu! This means “Happy New Year!” in Jap-anese. It literally means “Congratulations that a new year has opened up!” Since we are humans, we made so many mistakes last year. However, finally the new year has come for us to start a new life! The door of the year 2013 is closed and now the door of 2014 is open! If you are regretting with this and that, let’s leave them behind. If you are angry with someone, let’s forgive them. Do you remember one of the most important teachings in Buddhism? No At-tachment! Now, let’s start a new year!

If many good things happened to you during the past year, let’s pray for more good things to

happen in this year again. If you lost your beloved ones, let’s pray for them to be able to live

happy and peaceful second lives in the Pure Land.

New Year is a good time to make resolutions. Let’s make resolutions to live a good Buddhist

life during this year by saying the following prayer:

May Buddha help me to move forward,

May you help me to understand Your teachings and respect them,

May you help me to apply Your teachings to my daily life,

May you help me to practice Buddhist customs,

May you help me to share my happiness with others,

and

Please always be with me.

Now I would like to thank the volunteers who worked so hard last year. Because of your

help, the activities of the last year such as O-Bon, Bon Dance, Ba-zaar, Mochi Making and so on were very successful. Let me ask you for your continuous support to our temple.

I also would like to thank those who worked hard to install the solar panels and to re-pave the driveway and parking lot. Now our temple is eco-friendly and more comfortable for you to visit.

I am sure hard times and glad times will be ahead, but if we trust in the power of Buddha and

work together, our future will be very successful. Now is the time to understand the role that each one of us plays for the bet-terment of our community.

May Buddha keep on shining upon us and may you have a very Happy New Year! In Gassho,

Rev. Yubun Narashiba

Jodo Mission of Hawaii

Head Minister

Repaved Parking Lot and Driveway

Newly installed Solar Panels

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GYOKI-E CHUTOBA FORM 2014（御忌会中塔婆申し込み用紙） Deadline: January 12, 2014

YOUR NAME（お名前）：＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿PHONE（お電話番号）：＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿

NAME OF DECEASED（亡くなった方のお名前）：

1._________________________________________________________

2.____________________________________________________________

3.____________________________________________________________

4.____________________________________________________________

One Chutoba is $ 7.00 × Total of Chutoba ＿＿＿＿＿＿ ＝ Total ＄＿＿＿＿＿＿

（中塔婆 1本 7ドル） （本数） （合計）

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Order accepted by: _______________ Date accepted: _______/______/ 2014 (In person / Mail / By phone)

Received by: _______________ Date paid: _______/______/ 2014 (Cash / Check # __________ ) Write_______

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Gyoki-e (Honen Shonin’s Memorial Service)

Gyoki-e means the me-

morial service for Honen Shonin.

Honen Shonin, who is a founder

of Jodo Shu, passed away on Jan-

uary 25th, 1212. He was 80 years

old.

After Honen Shonin

passed away, his disciples and

believers started to have a memo-

rial service for him on the 25th of

every month. The biggest cere-

mony was held on 25th of Janu-

ary every year. This service was

held not only locally in Kyoto but

it spread all over Japan. In those

days, the word “Gyoki” meant

the anniversary of the deaths of

the Emperors or their wives. The

word “Gyoki” was such a respect-

able word for the Emperor's fam-

ily.

Three hundred years later,

after Honen Shonin passed away,

the Emperor Gokashiwabara

mandated Jodo Shu to call the

anniversary of Honen Shonin’s

death “Gyoki”. Since then, peo-

ple called his annual memorial

service “Gyoki”. This occasion

implied that Honen Shonin was

clearly accepted and revered by

the Emperor and the people.

Our Gyoki-e service will be

held on January 26th at 10 a.m.

Please join us.

Chutoba is available for this

Gyoki-e service. At this service

you may also honor your

deceased ancestors with a Chuto-

ba prayer. See above Chutoba

order form.

Founder of Jodo Shu :

Honen Shonin (1133-1212)

Gyoki-e Service

January 26 at 10 a.m.

____ I plan to attend service

____ I do not plan to attend

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MAHALO

Thank you everyone who came for

general clean-up of the Temple, includ-

ing the Columbarium or Nokotsudo on

December 1, 2013. Your hard work

and dedication to the Temple are

deeply appreciated.

Thank you to the Sunday School and

Intermediate YBA for the delicious

pizza luncheon and visit by Santa.

What an enjoyable treat after general

cleaning!

FAQ: How should we discard Kagami Mochi?

ANS: Because of the unique climate of Hawaii, Kagami Mochi gets moldy much faster than Japan.

Therefore, it is recommended to take them down after the three holy days of the New Year (i.e.

on January 4th), though it is the common practice in Japan to keep them until January 11th.

After you take them down, it is the best if you eat them. However, in Hawaii, it is quite possible

that the Kagami Mochi is already moldy. In that case, sprinkle a dash of salt on the Kagami Mochi

to purify them just like Sumo wrestlers purify the Sumo ring with salt and put them in a paper bag

or wrap them with paper such as news paper, and then throw them away.

HBC Bodhi Day Guest Speaker

Professor Soho Machida Professor Soho Machida of

the Hiroshima University was

the guest speaker at the HBC

Bodhi Day Service. Bodhi

Day is celebrated by Bud-

dhists as the day Shakyamuni

Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.

Professor Machida who practices Zen, talked about at-

taining peace. If an employer and an employee have the same

goal for a better company, there are no problems, everyone is

in sink as to what needs to be done and there is peace. He

said that it is interesting to note that the word “ARIGATO” is a very powerful word. Everyone is familiar

with the word “ARIGATO” - thank you. By taking deep breaths and saying “A—-R—-I—--G—-A—-

T—-O”, you can release some of the negativity and attain peace. Photo above left is of Professor

Machida and Bishop Hara. Photo above is Professor Machida with hi power point presentation.

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.

Avis Shigemi Kekina 66

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.

film in November and would like to show it again.

Both young and old should enjoy this film. How the

first Japanese contract laborers came to Hawaii and

later the ministers, women and children and how the

temples are today. We are hoping that Lorraine

Minatoishi, one of the directors of the film will also

be present at this January 22 showing.

Please invite your friends and relatives to

Aloha Buddha:

Wednesday, January 22 at 6:30 pm

at Jodo Mission of Hawaii 1429 Makiki Street, Honolulu, HI 96814

PH: 949-3995.

Movie Night:

ALOHA BUDDHA

Aloha Buddha is a very

interesting historical docu-

mentary about Buddhism in

Hawaii. We presented this

1 Sekitaro Hirohama

The Hirohama & Kawasugi Family Kenji Fujikami

The Hashimoto Family The Ohara Family Haruko Ikuta

Tsugio Takamatsu Family Tomomitsu Kawamura The Kawamura Family

Fukuda Tokusaburo’s Father Hon-yo Jo-dai Shin-ji The Fukuda Family

The Nakamura Family Chukichi Asamura Toyo Asamura

The Masuda & Asamura Family The Yamasaki & Hara Family The Yoshizaki Family

The Matsushita Family The Aoki Family The Sakuda Family

The Okamura Family Stanley Satoru Morimoto

2 Richard Hichiro Kawamoto 3 Hideo Toyoshiba

Yoshitaka Wada 4 Tamaru Muraoka

5 Kiyo Fujikami The Fujikami Family

Shizuyo Morisako Kasuke Yamane Jiro Nakamura

Randall Loreg The Loreg Family

6 Kikuyo Yamasaki Eiichi Fujita Shigeharu Ohata

7 Jiro Oyabu The Oyabu & Kondo Family

Kazuko Nomiyama Tetsuko Miyamoto Kama Takara

Ruth Shigeko Tarumoto 8 Matsujiro Otani (1) The Otani Family

The Yanagihara Family Toshio Isoibe The Isobe Family

Matsujiro Otani (2) Taketo Sumimoto (1) Juichi Uesugi

Fusataro Higuchi Taketo Sumimoto (2) Kenji Miyakawa

Nobu Kishimoto 9 Taka Tomonari

The Tomonari Family Asa Hayashi Hisako Takamura

10 Hiroko Yoza The Yoza Family

Kami Higa The Higa Family

Bishop Ninryo Nago

The Nago & Kunimoto Family 11 Tokoe Imaguchi

The Imaguchi Family Hatsuko Hayashi The Hayashi Family

Masakichi Teruya Reginald Hisao Hisamura Uichiro Ishii

Kohei Umeda Matsuyo Yamamoto

12 Heiji Fukuda (1) Heiji Fukuda (2) The Fukuda Family

Nagao Yamada Shokichi Harada Tadashi Yanagihara

13 Bishop Jiko Kuya Shima Morita

Shizue Fujita Shima Morita

14 Akitaka Chikamoto The Ohta Family Genzo Yanagihara

The Yanagihara Family Tsuchiyo Kimoto Miyoko Kaya

James Akira Tamura 15 Tane Nagata (1)

The Nagata Family Sukeichi Kameoka The Kameoka Family

Tane Nagata (2) Mildred Misako Tanimura Shizue Kimura

16 Take Shinagawa Tomojiro Fujita

The Fujita Family Kenji Iwamoto Chiyoka Mizuno

Seiichi Shimamoto 17 Hanayo Taniguchi

Kame Okamoto Moto Kawasugi Nobuo Hayashi

18 Kiyomatsu Daitoku (1) The Daitoku Family The Kawauchi Family

Katsutoshi Takada The Takada Family Kiyomatsu Daitoku (2)

Itaro Kurihara The Kurihara Family Masao Ishii

Shoichi Ishida 19 Tai Kawano

The Kawano Family Chiyo Tomai The Tomai Family

Miyo Ueno The Ueno Family

20 Shinazo Nishiguchi The Nishiguchi Family

Noboru Ajimura

The Ajimura Family Kiku Kimura Yuriko Nishimoto

21 Sueko Higashimura Kiku Kimura

The Kimura & Muroshige Family Masao Teruya

Takeo Yamane Shimo Hatanaka Hiroshi Furuya

Tsuneko Shintaku Koichi Ronald Namihira

22 Masae Tanimura Konoshin Kimura Fukukichi Tatei

23 Shokichi Fukumoto The Fukumoto Family

Takeo Yoshihara The Yoshihara Family The Tanaka Family

Jiro Kiyama Ralph Toshiaki Hashimoto Terry Kazuo Yorimoto

24 Heikichi Isobe The Isobe Family

Machi Yokoyama The Yokoyama & Morita Family Toranosuke Kinoshita

Tane Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Tsune Aoki

George Masao Tanaka Helen Katsuko Ito Tetsuo Shinohara

25 Taka Fukuda The Fukuda Family

Saiichi Hyodo Joseph Yoshihiko Fujihana Sadako Oki

Teruko Mamiya The Sato Omura Family Takeshi Tanaka

26 Take Arita The Arita Family Haruo Nakamura

The Nakamura Family Kimio Yagi The Yagi Family

Sueyoshi Yanagihara Yoshi Yamamoto Chester Takeo Kaita

27 Seiichi Fujimoto The Fujimoto Family

Takeshi Sato Charles Shoichi Kimura Hiroko Nakano

28 Yoshie Sato The Sato & Suzuki Family

Sae Higashimura The Higashimura Family Tome Yamanaka

The Yamanaka Family Chizuko Saeki

Sadamu Iwamoto

Yooko Fujimoto 29 Tomo Isobe

Hana Kinoshita The Kinoshita Family Jisaburo Kanemoto

The Kanemoto & Miyamoto Family Kansuke Shintani

Fusao Taniguchi Ralph Hitoshi Tanaka Toshito Fukuda

30 Kumaichi Tomonari The Tomonari Family

Tsunejiro Kawasaki The Kawasaki & Nakagawa Family

Ine Yoshizaki The Yoshizaki Family Tomota Kakehashi

Masao Kume Akio Matsuda Kiyoshi Kamimura

Barbara Okimoto 31 You Kawamura

The Kawamura Family Shizuko Aoyama Kaname Yamanaka

Takeo Tanaka Shigeno Ohara

Perpetual Memorial Service (Eitaikyo) For January 2014

Apology for December

2013 Eitaikyo List: We apologize for not list-

ing the following

deceased person in the December Bulletin:

12/11: Takeo Yokomichi

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