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Vol. 59, No. 4 April 2016 REV. USUKI’S PAGE

Miyamoto Musashi and Shinran

The consequence of the law of karma is that no amount of petitionary prayers can change the given human condition. Since there is no supreme being which governs man’s destiny, and since as a result prayers are ineffective to change the course of life, each man must strive to perfect his life.

Rev. Gyodo Haguri, The Awareness of Self (1967, p. 13)

Do you have someone special like a teacher on whom you have relied in the past and to whom you can return for guid-ance as a trusted guiding light? This may be a strange story but when I was a child living in Ja-

pan, I was impressed with Miyamoto Musashi. He was perhaps one of the most famous Japa-nese samurai, and also a devoted Buddhist. Although I have many great teachers I admire today, when I am in need of some wisdom, somehow Miyamoto Musashi often comes to mind. There are many famous short and direct quotes by Musashi that are very revealing and profound. Each thought has the power to awaken the wisdom within:

“Accept everything just the way it is.” “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the

world.” “Never let yourself be saddened by a

separation.” “Do not fear death.” “Respect Buddha and the gods without

counting on their help.”

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

My life as child in America was new, always challenging, and often confusing. Every encoun-ter was difficult so unknowingly, I relied on my limited wisdom to help me along. Although I knew nothing about Buddhism or the life ahead that awaited me, in many ways, Miyamoto Mu-sashi was somehow my model of perseverance

on whom I counted during my times of crisis.

After immigrating to America, we lived in one of the worst neighborhoods imaginable. Supersti-tion, prayers, and hell seemed very real. Some-how it seemed as though the only escape from real problems was by hoping, praying, or ex-pecting some miracle to happen. This played a role in how I dealt with difficulties. I was con-stantly being bombarded by name-calling and suggestions from other kids to go to hell. I don’t know what prompted such encounters but my brother and I were the only Japanese students in the school so we were easy targets for them. It got better as we moved to another neighbor-hood and became more integrated with others through sports and activities. Later, as I grew older, superstition, God, hell and prayer became constant contradictions in my life. But I was also fearful of feeling some kind of wrath just in case it was true. I cannot remember when I stop believing in such ideas but I believe it was bound to happen.

Miyamoto Musashi dealt with the reality of life as presented to him during the difficult feudal period and he never hoped or wished for a bet-ter life ahead of him. Life was a matter of fact and he accepted all challenges and confronta-tions “as is.” Such a lifestyle influenced my early life and is confirmed today by the teaching of Jodo Shinshu. I discovered through Jodo Shinshu texts that there is no heaven or hell and that superstitions are not valid. Shinran Shonin became a new Miyamoto Musashi. They

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both became relevant in a most real sense. What a liberating experience it was. I was then allowed to live a life based on fact and learned to accept all things as they are. I became a person solely responsible for my behavior and my life. Perhaps we can call this the liberation factor of being a true human being. Although Miyamoto Musashi was a Zen follower, his true humanness touched many in the most profound sense.

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

We don’t know when and how each of us is truly influenced throughout our life by countless peo-ple and circumstances. As long as we have the seed that has the potential to awaken us, it is only a matter of time before people who demon-strate wisdom and compassion touch us. I’m sure this story is not new or rare. Buddhism

has been around for over 2,500 years and it continues to influence new and old seekers alike. Shakyamuni Buddha was also moved by such a wonderful occurrence. The difference between Shakyamuni Buddha and us is that he was able to truly articulate the process of awakening.

… A single turning of the mind not only transforms oneself but also other people and the whole atmosphere.

Faith solves the problem of death, but it has positive implications for our life at this moment. The great inward transformation occurring in the awakening of faith is the important experience in the Buddhist way of life, for no man is born a Buddhist.

In reciting Namu Amida Butsu, The benefits are immeasurable, The negative karma of samsara disappears And even death is transcended.

Rev. Gyodo Haguri, The Awareness of Self (1967, pp. 62-63)

Shinshu Corner

Superstitions, Sahā World, Suchness

DESTROYING SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS

Superstitious beliefs developed in times of crises when we grasp at straws for a solution. When a satisfactory result occurs with a non-related action, we tend to believe the non-related action was the cause of the desired result. Many ath- letes develop superstitions for just this reason.

The baseball player who hits a home run after rubbing his uniform will tend to keep rubbing that part of the uniform until his next home run, which reinforces his feeling that rubbing his uniform is the cause of his superior batting.

The next step from this type of superstition is a belief that a particular form of worship or “faith” in something will bring us material reward. All such beliefs are pure superstition and cannot be the guiding principle of our life.

We can make proper judgments when we are of sound mind and body, but when we are confronted with a crisis, we often revert to child-like attitudes that bring about and strengthen superstitious attitudes. We must be on guard against such attitudes at all times.

Well, Almost Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jōdo Shinshū* But Were Afraid to Ask (3rd Printing, Revised Edition, 1995, p. 5)

SAHĀ WORLD 娑婆世界 shaba sekai

The Sanskrit sahā, “endurance,” describes our world, in which human beings must endure defilements and calamities, suffering all the evils of samsaric existence. Persons experience suffering as long as they remain in an unenlightened state; hence the world is termed sahā to awaken them to their undesirable predicament and to encourage them to walk the path of enlightenment.

The Collected Works of Shinran, Vol. II (1997, p. 203)

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Suchness 真如 shinnyo (tathatā), lit., “thusness”; hosshō, dharmatā, “things as they are”

Suchness is a term for true reality, not as an abstract substance underlying existence, but as all things just as they are in themselves. Things being “as they are” means that they are perceived not with discri-minative thinking (vikalpa) or the self-centered imposition of distinctions and values, but from the per-spective of the wisdom of the enlightened one (bodhisattva or tathagata), who, while recognizing each thing or being in all its distinctiveness and particularlity, grasps it nondiscriminatively, in its non- difference with all other things, including the enlightened one himself. …

… When seen not from the perspective of the dichotomized subject-object thought of foolish beings but as they truly are, things are said to be formless or empty, for they are not objects upon which concepts and judgments can be superimposed; further, they are perceived truly only as the real object of supreme wisdom that knows without discriminating subject and object, or the self-revelatory wisdom itself. Thus D.T. Suzuki states:

The highest reality is not a mere abstraction, it is very much alive with sense and intelligence, and, above all, with love purged of human infirmities and defilements. (The Essence of Buddhism, p. 47)

The Collected Works of Shinran, Vol. II (1997, pp. 208-209)

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Connie Yahata

Greetings to all of you. As of this writing, on March 4-6, 2016, the annual BCA National Council Meeting will be held in Visalia, CA. I will be attending and will disseminate any vital informa-tion gathered from the meeting in next month’s Bulletin.

For the past few months, the subject matter of my Bulletin articles have been about the WLABT Onaijin Restoration project. Have you ever stopped and wondered where the funds come from for this project? If we were working on a project unrelated to temple matters, we might be able to fill out a form/application and send it off to the government or to the city requesting assistance, but of course, we can’t. So how do we get the funds? That’s easy—through the

financial support of people like you. I am happy to announce that we have been receiving dona-tions; however, we have a ways to go before we reach our goal of $150,000.00.

Please help us further our efforts with a tax-deductible donation. With your generous sup-port, we will be able to maintain and preserve our onaijin for generations to come. You will find two flyers within the Bulletin—a) Onaijin Restoration flyer and b) Marie Callender fundraiser flyer. Give yourself a break from cooking and join us at Marie Callender’s on March 22nd from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Just be sure to take the flyer with you. A percentage of all sales will be donated to WLABT and will be applied to the restoration project. Thank you again for your continued support!!

WLA Buddhist Temple Onaijin Restoration Project

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Please make monthly donations to: WLA Buddhist Temple and note “Onaijin Restoration” on the memo line.

Mail To: West L.A. Buddhist Temple, 2003 Corinth Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025

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New WLA Neighborhood Parking Restrictions

Please be aware of the new parking restrictions that may have taken effect in our neighborhood starting March 2016. These restrictions were passed by the City of Los Angeles after the petition was filed with the city. The affected area is as follows:

Parking District 49 - North: Missouri Avenue, South: W. Olympic Boulevard West: Barrington Avenue, East: Beloit Avenue

Restrictions: * 2-hour parking 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday only. Vehicles with District No. 49 permits exempted.

* NO PARKING any other time, including Saturday and Sunday.

Please contact the office if you have any questions. UPCOMING SERVICES AND EVENTS March 19 (Saturday): Spring Ohigan seminar March 20 (Sunday): Spring Ohigan service

Rev. Masao Kodani (Eng) Rev. Mutsumi Wondra (Jpn)

March 22 (Tuesday): Onaijin Fundraiser

Marie Callender (see flyer on page 8).

March 27 (Sunday) Temple and garden

clean-up (no service)

March 28 (Monday): 80 Plus lunch April 2 (Saturday): Shotsuki hoyo

Rev. F. Usuki (E), Rev. Shinji Okada (J) Hanamido Preparation

April 3 (Sunday): Hanamatsuri Service

Rev. Shumyo Kojima (E/J) April 10 (Sunday): Eshinni, Kakushinni, and

Takeko Kujo Memorial Service

April 17 (Sunday): No service April 24 (Sunday): Family service April 25 (Monday): 80 Plus lunch May 1 (Sunday): Family service May 7 (Saturday): Shotsuki hoyo May 8 (Sunday): Gotan-e Shinran Shonin’s birthday

and Mother’s Day service May 15 (Sunday): Family service May 21 (Saturday): Wine-A-Palooza II

(see flyer at the end of the newsletter) May 22 (Sunday): No service May 29 (Sunday): Family service May 30 (Monday): Memorial Day cemetery services

TEMPLE CLOSED

COME TASTE THE DHARMA!

Join us for Study Class Thursdays at 1:00 PM

Coffee and refreshments, too!

~ Everyone Welcome ~

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Araki, WalterBaba, HiroichiDohi, MisaoDote, YasuoFuchiwaki, MomoyoFujimura, Rev. BunyuFujita, GeorgeFukumoto, TomikoHada, BettyHara, BenHara, KameichiHirabayashi, AliceHirano, JamesHisaoka, WayeIkemiya, KitayeIkkanda, RoyIwasaki, DorothyKafka, KyujaKafka, Robert Sr.Kakuta, ToraKishi, Zenichi

Kitahara, HironoriKitajima, GeorgeKotake, AlanKotake, SumioKubota, KanjiKuramoto, JerryKurosaki, KamezoKuwamoto, ChieMasuda, KenMasuda, ShizukoMataga, AsaMatsui, TaroMatsumi, TaiMatsuura, HanaMayetani, GaryMayetani, JohnMiyata, TatsuyeMochizuki, YoshiharuMorihiro, MikeMorimoto, TakashiMorita, Kintaro

Mukai, AkiraMukai, IsaoMukai, ItsuoMukai, MitsuyeNakagawa, TadashiNakamura, EmikoNakamura, KenzoNakasako, GeorgeNakawatase, HidemiNakawatase, MoyoNishida, HirokichiNishimoto, HideoNishimoto, YahichiOgawa, TakeshiOhigashi, SensukeOnami, SaichiOzamoto, MaryPierce, RobertSakoda, CarlSera, MikioSera, Tokiye

Shinohara, CharlesShintaku, HisayeSorita, LindaTakahashi, GeorgeTakeda, KumazoTakeda, TsutomuTakemoto, KinukoTanaka, LeoTanigawa, HasuTashima, YachiyoTerada, ChiyoTerada, FujioToya, AkiUchida, HarryYabuta, AyakoYamaguchi, ChiyeYamaguchi, PeterYasui, Miyeko

APRIL SHOTSUKI HOYO, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 2, 2016

Dote, FumiyeFujino, YoshiFukiage, MiyukiHayashida, IsekichiHirabayashi, JoeHisaoka, DenichiIkemiya, ShigeakiItaya, PaulineIwamoto, ShoheiKawasaki, MinekoKinoshita, ZenzoKishi, SukeichiroKitahara, KeikowKitahara, MisukoKiyohiro, MarshallKoda, HideoMaeda, Emiko

Masuda, ChieMasuda, IshiMasunaga, TakiMatsumoto, BobMiyake, KinueMiyasaki, TetsutaroMiyata, FredNakamura, KatsumiNakamura, KikueNakamura, ShuichiNakamura, SumikoNakamura, TatsumiNakasako, DoreenNakasako, NedNakashima, OwariNakawatase, ReikoNicho, Tsukasa

Nishida, MitoshiNishimoto, HisaeNonoguchi, ChiyoichiOgawa, TakeshiOhara, HideyoshiOkubo, TomiOnami, TazukoOshimo, TakeruSakurai, WilliamSasaki, KoyoshiSasaki, SeinoSeike, KazukoShimohira, IchiShintaku, JunSoeda, ToshioSujishi, MutsukoSunada, Miyaichi

Takade, YasueTakahashi, ShotaTakayama, FrankTakemoto, YoshihikoTanigawa, YukioTerada, FumiToguchida, GonoTonai, IchiroUchida, AmyYamaguchi, MidoriYasuda, AkiraYasuda, YeikoYonemori, YoshitoYoshimoto, NoboruYoshimoto, Peggy

MAY SHOTSUKI HOYO, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 7, 2016

CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF:

Miyoko TachikiSeptember 28, 1920 - February 24, 2016

Frank Masatoshi UtoMarch 24, 1969 - February 24, 2016

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BWA NEWS by Connie Yahata

The February BWA meeting was held on the 14th. Co-presidents Beverly Yahata and Haru Matsumune attended the Southern District BWA meeting in Vista on February 13th. A “Thank You!” to Rev. Patti

Usuki for providing transportation.

On Saturday, June 18, 2016, the Buddhist Temple of San Diego and Vista Buddhist Temple will be co-hosting the Southern District Bud-dhist Conference and the event will be held at the San Diego Crowne Plaza Hotel. This year, the theme is: AMERICAN SHIN BUDDHISM: NEW VOICES. The registration fee is $65/per person if submitted prior to May 20th. The fee will increase to $85/per person if submitted between May 21 until June 10. If you wish to attend, but transportation is a problem, Venice

Hongwanji Buddhist Temple is currently work-ing on obtaining a 47-passenger coach bus (not a school bus) from the City’s bus program. San Fernando Valley Hongwanji BT, Venice Hon-gwanji BT, and West Los Angeles BT will be sharing the bus. Additional information will be passed on when received. If you wish to attend, please contact the WLABT office.

On Sunday, March 20th at 8:30 a.m., BWA members will be busy packing chirashi for distribution after the Ohigan service. Please come before service if you can help. Lastly, our Historian Jacqui Pierce announced that the 2015 BWA album was more or less complete, but she is checking on a few names.

Next meeting: April 3 at 11:30 a.m. See you there!

Welcome, New Members!

Please say “hello” to Mayuko Kawai and her daughters, Moka and Riko.

Happy Birthday to

Haruko Ikkanda

80 Plus Lunch Monday, February 29

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ONAIJIN RESTORATION

FUNDRAISER $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple

will be having a “Day at Marie Callender’s” on

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm.

Marie Callender’s West Los Angeles will donate 20% of our group’s food and beverage purchases (including whole pie

purchases and take-out) to our organization on the above designated day.

To participate in our fundraising event, you must present this flyer to your server when you order! Other coupons, discounts or scrip may not be used during our fundraising event.

11324 National Blvd.

Off the 405 freeway at National, west to Sawtelle 310-478-0347

No soliciting on the premises.

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BUDDHIST MEN ORGANIZATION

FROM THE DESK OF: DR. JACK FUJIMOTO

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

huzimoto.blogspot.com/2016/02/buddhist-men-of-wlabt.html THE END

The official end of the Buddhist Men organiza-tion, as a functioning element of West Los Ange-les Buddhist Temple, was announced as Decem- ber 31, 2015.

To celebrate the “cessation of activities,” the group held their final farewell luncheon on February 7, in the Sangha Hall of the Temple, with the usual cadre of men cooking steaks and salmon for the invited attendees. Members from various Temple groups feasted on the well-cooked food and enjoyed the amenities featured by the Buddhist Men during past activities.

As part of the farewell, I prepared a plaque showing the Buddhist Men members who, over the years, worked diligently for the organization and who died during the years of the Buddhist Men organization’s existence. Hopefully, it will be placed in the Sangha Hall along with other Temple memorabilia.

Since the Buddhist Men organization started in 1958 to support the Temple to carry out its many activities, several support services have helped the Temple.

From the Temple website, a description of the organization is shown. (http://westlosangelesbuddhisttemple.org/organizations-of-the-west-los-angeles-buddhist-temple/buddhist-men)

In addition, I took it on my own to prepare plaques for several members who were the “glue” that kept the organization afloat during its 58-year history. I say that I took it on my own because there no longer was an authority to approve this move. So, I prepared plaques to recognize and appreciate the work of Ichiro Ouchi, 38 years as Treasurer; Hidemi Ohkawa-hira, 12 years as Membership Chairman; and Milton Iwamoto, outgoing President. (Photo-graphs of their plaques appear throughout the article.) THE LAST HURRAH!

During 2015, Milton called monthly meet-ings but had to can-cel several of them for lack of agenda or attendance, or even if we met, it was usu-ally concluded within a hal f -hour. With today’s technology, it was more effective and efficient to han-dle affairs differently. Having persons like Sei drive from Malibu through the Santa Monica traffic on Pacific Coast Highway and take notes as Secretary was “cruel and unusual punish-ment” to my way of thinking. So, Milton did a great job as President, thinking of his cabinet members and the agenda to be discussed.

Also, in the past few years, some of the Bud-dhist Men took on the task of Temple finances after the regular meeting. Neal Yahata, Temple Treasurer, and Victor Naramura, Temple Endowment Chairman, both wanted advice from

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the “sage” Tosh Ishioka, along with Milton Iwamoto and myself at times, to stay to discuss Temple finances. We dubbed ourselves the “Intelligent and Ignorant Investment Commit- tee - 3 ‘I’s and a ‘C’.”

We were “good learners” in that some went to Omaha to hear the “Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet” at his annual meeting, others went to Fidelity Investment Seminars, and still others went to the local meetings of American Associa-tion of Individual Investors (AAII) as well as the Las Vegas meetings of Money World. SOME IMPRESSIONS AND THE FUTURE

During the past years, the Buddhist Men spon-sored several activities within the Temple. The first one that comes to mind are the various booths during the Obon Festival that were “revenue generators.” Will the same volunteers, who handled the logistics and management of each booth, take charge again without Buddhist Men sponsorship?

What becomes of the hot dog, chili dog, chili rice? Although Hidemi handled the logistics of supplies, the booth was operated primarily by

young volunteers. I feel that the 103 year old “Mr. Hot Dog” Stanley Ikeda would hand le the booth adequately. But, it may be too much to a s k . S o , w i t h o u t Hidemi, what now? Also, the beer booth w a s h a n d l e d b y M i l t o n I w a m o t o

with a lot of help from non-Buddhist Men.

The Udon booth has been a fixture for many years. The dashi was the province of Sam Hada, who still oversees much of the quality control, with Stambul, Shimomaye, and Sasaki doing the making. Who knows that a changing sponsorship may want to serve ramen with the existing broth or cold somen noodles.

So, decisions need to be made by the Obon Festival Committee as to what happens to those activities previously sponsored by the Buddhist Men.

Over the years, the Buddhist Men have worked with the women’s group to sponsor a memorial service. What will happen here?

For many major Temple services that advertised “lunch to follow,” the Buddhist Men “stepped

up to the plate” to handle the chores of c o o k ing ch i c ke n , steak, and making rice for mochi tsuki. The latter was iden-tified more as a Tem-ple event with Bud-dhist Men helping.

But, in any event, the two major services of F a l l O h i g a n a n d Hanamatsuri will likely be handled by the new ABA. So, that is not a problem.

To me, disbanding the Buddhist Men organiza-tion is likened to the early 1800s when the Shogun in Japan started to lose his grip on the regional lords and eventually had to declare his samurai to be independent. Where did the samurai go? What identity did they take? Much like the slaves of that era in the U.S., many just added “son” to their plantation owner’s name and became “Johnson” or “Jackson” or what-ever. For the liberated Samurai, they adopted different names or wrote their names using different kanji. “Fujimoto” was commonly writ-ten with the “fuji” kanji denoting “wisteria,” but in my case, the fuji portion is written much like “Mt. Fuji”.

Now with the liberated Buddhist Men—a bunch of renegades with no identity—where will the existing members go? Will they join the Adult Buddhist Association (ABA) type of organization found in neighboring temples? THE CHALLENGE IS THE FUTURE

Change is a basic premise of our Jodo Shinshu way of thinking. We shall see what 2016 brings to the existing members of the “dead” Buddhist Men organization.

Let go and see your future much as I see mine.

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BUDDHIST MEN FAREWELL PARTY Sunday, February 7

Thank you to Masao Sasaki, Rick Stambul, and Ted Tanaka for the photos.

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Neal Yahata and Gaylen Kobayashi Tosh Ishioka and Rick Stambul Stanley, Yasuko, Mrs. & Rev. Oda, Mike

Kampai!

Rev. Oda and Rev. Usuki Rick Stambul and Stanley Ikeda Connie Yahata and Beverly Yahata

Jack Fujimoto presents plaque to Milton Iwamoto Stanley Raposa and Ichiro Ouchi run bingo

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT JR. YBA SEMINAR II - Saturday, February 20

COMMUNITY NEWS by Dr. Jack Fujimoto Unique WLA Nikkei Senior Lunch Program Needs Support

The Los Angeles-sponsored SENIOR LUNCH PROGRAM serves the West Los Angeles Nikkei community through its low-cost lunch meals, Monday through Friday, at the Japanese Institute of Sawtelle (JIS). Lunch is served at 11 am for a donation of $1.25. Special for the Nikkei community is that the lunch has gohan (rice) daily.

To assure the continuation of this special pro-gram at JIS, numbers of diners should increase.

So, we urge readers and members to come and join us for lunch.

In this day of cost-cutting, the sponsors have been consolidating senior lunch programs where attendance has been an issue. We do not want to be a victim of closure. For us, gohan is still a special treat not found in neighboring lunch programs. Please come and join the senior diners or even volunteer to serve.

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正午80+中ランチ

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宇宿先生休み

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午後1 スタデークラス(英)

午後7:30 タイコ

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