Gotan-ye - Sonic.net

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The Enmanji SANGHA Newsletter May 2009 Page 8 The Human Race The Sonoma County JACL will be participating in the Human Race again this year. This event will be held on Saturday May 9 at 8 AM at Slater Middle School. We would like your support in taking part in this fund raiser. You can take part in the 3K and 10K Walk and Run or by signing up to pledge. If you are interested please contact either Alice or George Kashiwagi at 823- 7053 or e-mail to kashimor@sonic.net. Outstanding Community Volunteer Among our midst, there is a lady some of us know little about. Retired a few years ago, Marie Sugiyama worked at Montgomery High School for 32 years as a physical education and business educator. She excelled in her work, receiving many, many awards, among them, Teacher of the Year (1991), Athletic Director of the Year for the North Coast Section, California State Athletic Directors Association (1992), N.C. Section, California Interscholastic Federation, Phillip Hempler Award (1994), Hall of Fame at Chico State(1996), and Santa Rosa Junior College in (2000). Marie has also been a board member of many athletic groups in Santa Rosa as well as in our community, notably, Sonoma County JACL, Chairing the Oral History Project, being part of the Speakers Bureau, involved as a liaison between the JACL and the Santa Rosa City Council to work on renaming the Fountain Grove Park to the Nagasawa Community Park. She has also received JACL’s Community Service Award as well as the National JACL Community Service Award (2000). Many of you may have seen the writeup of Marie in the Press Democrat not too long ago. This year, for Marie’s distinguished career and services to the community, Enman No Tomo Senior Center and the Sonoma County JACL were honored to recommend Marie as our outstanding community volunteer at the Northern California Senior Appreciation Brunch. This special brunch will be held at the Kabuki Hotel on April 19th. Congratulations, Marie! k.i. J.A.C.L. French Toast Breakfast Sunday, May 3rd 8:00am to Noon Memorial Hall Notes - from Page 1 $6.00 If you recall, the main reason why Shinran Shonin left Mt. Hiei was that he felt that during his twenty years of training he had failed to experience the transformation usually associated with Buddhist practices. In great despair, he attempted a 100 day retreat at the small shrine of Rokkakudo, which was dedicated to Prince Shotoku Taishi. It was during a dream he had one night that he was encouraged to seek the instruction of the well-known priest Honen. From Honen, Shinran found the meaning of “Absolute” Other power, and his own keen awareness of his personal shortcomings became the spiritual ground from which the blossom’s of Amida’s Vow Power could grow. Instead of trying to get rid of his foolish karmically evil “self,” Shinran came to understand that this very same evil karmic “self” provided the means, a kind of mirror, that allowed him to see the working of Amida’s Great Compassion. Because “Other” is not something that is relative to our “self” we must seek different ways to “see” it. It’s a little like trying to see the wind. We can not normally see the wind, since it has no shape or color, but we can see how it affects other things. It is in this way, we begin to understand how to approach studying that which is “an Absolute Other which is beyond all sentient beings.” In other words, we approach it by noticing the effects of Other Power on ourselves and other sentient beings. namoamidabutsu.
The Enmanji SANGHA Newsletter May 2009 Page 9 Japanese Page
Page 1 and 2: The Enmanji Sangha Est. 1934 The En
Page 3 and 4: The Enmanji SANGHA Newsletter May 2
Page 5 and 6: The Enmanji SANGHA Newsletter May 2
Page 7: The Enmanji SANGHA Newsletter May 2

Gotan-ye - Sonic.net

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?