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2012 Summera O NN EE NN EE SS SS Quarterly Newsletter of BRIGHT DAWN Center of Oneness Buddhism Vol. 16 No. 2 Summer 2012 HOW IS YOUR GARDEN GROWING? By Dharma Dan We planted Japanese If you are a busy person who often However, remember that the turnip seeds in the multi-tasks, you might want to slow turnip doesn’t say “Wow!” about its garden this spring. down and do one thing at a time. own size. There is no self-centered It’s always a thrill This is easier said than done. pride in nature. So this is Dharma when you see the Sometimes you think you are Dan with advice to just live a natural tiny green sprouts sticking up out of focusing on one thing when actually life nourished by organic fertilizers the dark earth. A few weeks later, your mind is filled with thoughts that like sincerity, humility, and gratitude. the plants were growing nicely, with have nothing to do with the present big green leaves… and with white moment. For example, it may look turnips poking out of the soil surface. like you’re quietly enjoying a cup of Hey, wait a minute, there’s one plant tea, when actually you are not tasting not like the rest in the straight row the tea at all because your mind is of plants but is all by itself to the side. filled with thoughts of the NBA Wow, look at the size of that turnip! basketball play-offs. I immediately knew there was a A great aid to present-centered Dharma lesson here. I asked awareness is mindful breathing. Adrienne to take a picture of the Pausing to take a long slow breath large turnip for this newsletter does wonders to stop extraneous article. mental activity so you can be more When you read the back of most aware of how you are functioning vegetable seed packages, the and what’s going on around you. planting instructions advise you to This is the pause that not only Inside thin out the seedlings after the seeds refreshes but also brings clarity into 2012 LM Conference p. 2 germinate and grow to be little what you are doing. There is a sprouts. If you don’t do the thinning, lightness of being and you do not feel Conference Pictures p. 3 the plants will be crowded and will crowded or rushed. Personal Impressions p. 4 compete with each other for Remember that you reap as you nutrients, resulting in stunted size have sowed. Weed out your Crocheting p. 5 and lower productivity. Might this extraneous priorities, then when your TV Dharma: Monk p. 5 lesson from Mother Nature also be spiritual life ripens, there will be a Why Memorial Donationa p. 6 applied to one’s spiritual growth? huge “turnip!” Universal Teachings For Everyday Living Page 1 2012 BRIGHTDAWN LAY MINISTER CONFERENCE by Morris Sekiyo Sullivan June was a historic month at Bright Dawn, where Lay their hands at archery. It wasn’t a traditional Japanese Minister Senseis attended, in person and on the internet, bow and no one threatened to out-shoot any Zen archers, the inaugural Bright Dawn Lay Minister Conference but everyone had fun aiming at a stack of hay bales and on June 2 and 3, 2012. makeshift dharma-wheel targets. To be able to come together like this and to spend Saturday afternoon, the group had a chance to learn time with Rev. Koyo and Adrienne Kubose in the how to make an okesa, and also got to see a collection of beautiful foothills of the Sierras was, in itself, historic okesas that had belonged to Rev. Gyomay significant. Being able to spend time learning about the Kubose and his teacher, Rev. Haya Akegarasu. traditional art of tea, making okesas, discussing plans The LMs also got to see a collection of ojuzus for Bright Dawn’s future, and sharing meals with family (Japanese style “malas” or prayer beads) of different and board members, however, made the conference very, lengths and vintages, and then to create their own using very special. beads and beading twine. Being able to share the Bright Dawn LM Senseis David Nichiyo Abatangelo, experience of creating something new together while Gio Sayo Shenphen Sugranes and Morris Sekiyo acknowledging the connection to tradition was a Sullivan, along with photographer/videographer DJ profoundly moving moment during the weekend’s events. Morris, spent the weekend at Bright Dawn headquarters The conference closed that day with a dinner break, a in Coarsegold, and several other LMs attended quite sumptuous feast featuring mostly raw and vegan conference sessions via online-streaming video. dishes created by Adrienne, who proved herself to be To date, four groups of lay ministers have been quite a chef-sensei in the raw-healthy foods arena. inducted beginning with the 2008 class. Abatangelo was Sunday’s session began with another ceremony, this one of six inductees in 2009; LMs Sugranes and time with an Homage to the Bright Dawn founders. Sullivan were both inducted in 2010. Afterward was one of the highlights of the weekend, Rev. Sensei Sayo chaired the event, which began at 9 a.m. Kubose’s sister, Joyce Sosho Kubose, gave the LMs an Saturday and ended late afternoon Sunday. The introduction to chanoyu, the Art of Tea. Joyce Sosho is conference began with an opening ceremony that an instructor in the Urasenke school of tea, which traces included playing the recorded Bright Dawn theme and its origins to the 16th century. silent meditation, along with a recording of San Bujo, Commonly (but not accurately) known as the “tea several readings and recitations and opening remarks ceremony,” the word “chanoyu” literally means “hot by Rev. Koyo Kubose. water for tea,” but it refers to a mindful process of It was a hot weekend, but it was not too hot to spend preparing and serving tea along with foods prepared for time outdoors Saturday morning observing the dharma the occasion. of nature at Altar Rock and to explore the Bright Dawn In this case, the purpose is not just to serve tea and grounds. The assembly also met at the site of a future snacks, however. Rather, it is a spiritual process that sanctuary and performed a formal dedication of the incorporates the principles of harmony, respect, purity grounds. A site plan had just been created for the and tranquility. It was a beautiful event which other LMs structure, so Rev. Kubose was able to share his vision, were able to experience online. in very tangible form, with the LM Senseis present. After the lunch break, Rev. Kubose gave a live talk During the lunch break, Rev. Kubose took the group on the subject of Oneness—a talk full of meaning and out to the garden, where everyone got a chance to try CONFERENCE continues on page 5 Universal Teachings For Everyday Living Page 2 Altar Rock Meditation Sanctuary Dedication Archery Chanoyu Renewal of Vows Oneness Newsletter Summer 2012 Editors: Adrienne Kubose, Rev. Koyo S. Kubose Phone: (559) 642-4285 Dial-the-Dharma: (847) 386-8836 Please send Poems, Readers Replies to: Email: [email protected] Live Dharma Sunday (347) 945-7953 28372 Margaret Road, Coarsegold, CA 93614 Website: www.brightdawn.org brightdawnsangha.ning.com The purpose of the Bright Dawn Center is to offer a non-sectarian, non-dualistic approach, the Way of Oneness, to deepen individual spirituality in everyday life for people of all backgrounds. Universal Teachings For Everyday Living Page 3 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS FROM COARSEGOLD by Morris Sekiyo Sullivan To say, “I sat on a rock and meditated” would be physical sense—I reside in Florida. Yet I realized this technically accurate. However, the statement falls far was my home—my spiritual home. short of the reality. On the first day of our conference, I had experienced a similar feeling several months Rev. Kubose took the group of LM senseis around the earlier when visiting India. There, where the Buddha Bright Dawn grounds to show us what had changed and gave his first sermon, I sat with my eyes closed and what was planned. After a time, he pointed out what he listened to the chanting of Buddhists from around the called the Dharma Throne and suggested we each take world, and suddenly felt myself buoyed up by the a few moments to sit there and see if a turning word flowing river of practice. Now here, listening to the arose. simple poetry of the wind in the treetops, I felt myself I took my turn at the rock. In this case, it would be firmly grounded upon my path. more accurate to say “in the rock” than on it. Time and There is an old saying, “You can never go home the forces of nature have indeed formed it into a very again.” I imagine that’s true if by “home” you mean a comfortable throne, but its curves and hollows seemed place in which your past resided. But a spiritual to wrap around me, almost like an egg, as if the earth home—that’s another matter. You don’t have to “go itself was protecting me from the darts and dangers of home again” to a spiritual home; like a tortoise, you my meandering mind. carry that refuge with you. I did meditate, turning my attention to the breath for I thought about that again a few days later, when a moment to quiet my thoughts before opening up to my return to Florida was unexpectedly delayed by bad whatever arose in my inner and outer environments.
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