This bilingual (English & Japanese) Dharma Talk by Rev. Henry Adams was shared at the June 4, 2023 Shotsuki Hoyo Monthly Memorial Service.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 In this month’s session we will learn about the Chinese Pure Land Master Tanluan, who abandoned his quest for immortality after meeting the Buddhist monk Bodhiruci who introduced him to the teaching of Amida Buddha’s Pure Land. Turning toward the dwelling of Master T’an-luan, the Emperor of LiangAlways paid homage to […]

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 This month’s session will continue to explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Vasubandhu, whose treatise on the Sutra of the Buddha of Immeasurable guides us to embrace the at times difficult work of helping others while keeping a playful heart. And when he reaches that lotus-held world,He immediately realizes […]

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 This month’s session will continue to explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Vasubandhu, whose treatise on the Sutra of the Buddha of Immeasurable has guided many through the generations to take refuge in the Amida Buddha’s compassionate vow. He discloses the mind that is single so that all beings […]

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 This month’s session will explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Vasubandhu, whose treatise on the Sutra of the Buddha of Immeasurable has guided many through the generations to take refuge in the Amida Buddha’s compassionate vow. Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, composing a treatise, declaresThat he takes refuge in the Tathagata of […]

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 This month’s session will continue to explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Nagarjuna, who clarifies that mindfulness of Amida Buddha is the path swiftly realize the settled mind. He teaches that the moment one thinks on Amida’s Primal Vow,One is naturally brought to enter the stage of the definitely […]

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 This month’s session will continue to explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Nagarjuna, which open our minds to the easy path of entrusting in Amida Buddha. Proclaiming the unexcelled Mahayana teaching,He would attain the stage of joy and be born in the land of happiness.Nagarjuna clarifies the hardship on […]

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 This month’s session will explore the teachings of the Pure Land Master Nagarjuna whose writings on the Middle Way serve as the foundation for the Mahayana Buddhist path to awakening. Sakyamuni Tathagata, on Mount Lanka,Prophesied to the multitudes that in south IndiaThe mahasattva Nagarjuna would appear in this worldTo crush the […]

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 This month we enter into the section of Shoshinge that is based on the teachings of the Seven Masters who transmitted the Pure Land teaching westward across Asia over the course of two millennia. The masters of India in the west, who explained the teaching in treatises,And the eminent monks of […]

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 The nembutsu is the easy path to awakening because its liberating power does not come from our own efforts.  In this month’s gathering we will explore the challenges of entrusting our lives to Amida Buddha’s compassionate Vow. For evil sentient beings of wrong views and arrogance,The nembutsu that embodies Amida’s Primal […]