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FRIEND OF THE DHARMA WAILUKU HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE 1828 VINEYARD STREET, WAILUKU, HI 96793 TELEPHONE: (808) 244-0406 – 244-9252 Website: www.wailukuhongwanji.org VOL. LIV, No. 10 Email: [email protected] October 2017 Help needed to prep green onions and food and craft booths will be set up around the temple grounds. bean sprouts for Maui Fair She said that food such as barazushi, nishime, sekihan, okara, pickled vegetables, baked goods, chicken bento, and hamburg- EMBERS HELP IS NEEDED TO CLEAN, CUT, er curry will be sold. Crafts made by the BWA members and by and pack the green onions on Tuesday, October local craft vendors will be sold. Plants will be available for sale. M3, and Wednesday, October 4, beginning at 7 In addition, commercial vendors, many from Oahu, will be a.m. and ending at noon. On Tuesday evening, help is showing off their wares. The BWA helps to provide assistance needed to cut and pack the green onions beginning at 4 p.m. to the temple. If you get off work earlier, come and be the first to start cut- ting the onions. College workshop to be held on Sun- On Wednesday, help is needed to pack 495# of bean day, October 15 sprouts. A total of 330 bags of bean sprouts and 240 bags of COLLEGE WORKSHOP FOR HIGH SCHOOL so- pork hash are needed. Board Chair, Michael Munekiyo, phomores and juniors along with their parents, will asks that all members support this project. Bean sprouts Abe held at the Wailuku Hongwanji Social Hall on and pork hash will be packed on Thursday and Friday. Sunday, October 15, beginning at 3 p.m. The workshop will Members are reminded to pick up be presented by Lloyd Yonemura, a retired high school their chow fun counselor. The workshop will assist students in getting an early start in applying for and selecting a college. RESIDENT MICHAEL MUNEKIYO REMINDS MEM- BERS to pick up their chow fun at the fairgrounds dur- Preschool registration for temple ing the following hours: members to begin on November 1 Thursday, October 5 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. AILUKU HONGWANJI MEMBERS ARE INVITED Friday, October 6 5 p.m. to 12 midnight to register their child early for Preschool for the Saturday, October 7 10 a.m. to 12 midnight 2018-2019 school year. An applicant MUST be a Members may also pick up their chow fun on Saturday, Wailuku Hongwanji Mission member at least 3 months prior to October 7, at the Wailuku Hongwanji Social Hall from 8 submitting an application. Members will begin the registration a.m. to 10 a.m. However, they MUST INFORM the office process starting Wednesday, November 1, 2017. that they will pick up the chow fun at the temple. Even Preschool Director Karen Yoshida stated that a non- though the deadline for informing the office has passed, you member would have to wait to register their child until Mon- can still call (244-0406) so enough chow fun is cooked. day, January 8, 2018, when the school’s Fall Term begins. Help needed to dismantle booth Primary qualification to enroll at the Preschool is that a child must be 2 years, 8 months of age or older and under 5 ELP IS NEEDED TO DISMANTLE THE CHOW years old. Parents must come to the school to register their Fun Booth on Monday, October 9, beginning at children. No telephone reservations will be accepted. H7:00 a.m. Aldon Mochida requests that members bring their tools and meet at the fairgrounds. The dismantled booth will be stacked into 5 pallets and transported to the temple for storage by Tri Isle Trucking. Lunch will be served upon completion of the project. BWA Autumn Craft and Food Fair set for October 28 HE ANNUAL BUDDHIST WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION Au- tumn Craft and Food Fair will be held on Saturday, Octo- Tber 28, at the Wailuku Hongwanji temple grounds from 7:00 a.m. to 12 noon. President Janet Kubota reported that “A WELCOMING SPIRIT GROWS OUR COMMUNITY TEMPLE” - 1 - So, the Chinese newspaper apologized to the Japa- AmessagefromReverendShinkaiMurakami nese company for their negative article written five years ResidentMinister–WailukuHongwanjiMission ago and printed articles on these high quality products. Many of the local farmers visited the farm owned by the Nurture and Enriching Japanese company and learned the basic principles on how Namo Amida Butsu to produce quality products for their farms. It took a few years but many patiently learned from the Japanese com- Today, the internet is a necessity if you want to do re- pany and started producing their own high quality items for search on any subject. I am not much of a computer the local people. geek, but I manage to get by with any research I need to At Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, we have the do. Jr. YBA program, martial arts, Japanese Language Recently, I read an article which connects our Jodo School, Pacific Buddhist Academy, preschools, and scout- Shinshu (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) guidance, and I ing programs that are nurturing our future leaders. was very impressed. The article goes as follows: We may not see these youths at our services and ac- A Japanese company leased a little over 200 acres of tivities. They are just incubating in the soil. Yes, it may land in China. The size, 200 plus acres, is just about the take a little time, just like the Japanese company that left size of an 18-hole golf course. One local Chinese news- acres of land nurturing in the field to enrich the soil as it paper laughed at the Japanese company because even if later produced great products. These products will be the they leased the land for 20 years, the company would not wisdom, compassion, and sincere heart, which Jodo Shin- be able to use the land for years. shu followers will offer to the community. This led the local people to suspect that the "Japanese An important thing is we must have the confidence company may have hidden treasures on the land." During and belief in our children and grandchildren to become our spring and autumn, they grew a few clumps of grass on successor. We can see how Shinran Shonin expressed the land and during the winter, the few clumps of grass his feelings and Amida's great wisdom "The True Shinjin were hidden by snow and decomposed and became natu- of the Pure Land way" in the collected works of Shinran, p. ral fertilizer. 101 as follows: The following year, at the beginning of spring, there Shinjin keeps the seeds of virtues from destruction; were a few more clumps of grass. During winter all of Shinjin nurture the tree of enlightenment; Shinjin makes grass were under the snow and decomposed and became supreme wisdom grow; and Shinjin makes all the Buddhas natural fertilizer once again. Each year the grass covered manifest itself. more and more of the field and within the five years, the You see our Dharma School students at our temple grass covered the entire field. services and activities. Yes, all of you are nurturing our What the Japanese company did was to use the land future with your sincere wisdom and faith of the Nembutsu as a ranch and had hundreds of cattle feed on the grass. minds to our children and grandchildren. Let us call our The cows ate the grass and their droppings became ferti- new and young families and nurture them and rejoice in lizer. The droppings became a great source of natural the happiness with all our Nembutsu followers. fertilizer and eventually, the entire field was full of nutrients Namo Amida Butsu, Namo Amida Butsu, Namo Amida Butsu and the land became perfect for farming. The company started producing high-quality dairy prod- Friend of the Dharma ucts such as milk and cheese. The farm also produced or- Deadline for submitting information for publication is the 15th of the month prior to the publication date. ganic strawberries, sweet tomatoes, and sweet corn. They The Wailuku Hongwanji Mission, 1828 Vineyard Street, Wailuku, HI 96793, publishes the newsletter monthly. Phone: 244-0406. The opinions shipped their products to high-quality supermarkets. The written by individual contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Wailuku Hongwanji Mission. prices were a bit higher than the local products. The local STAFF people laughed and thought who would buy these expen- Joan Tamori ...................................................................... Rev. Shinkai Murakami Franklin Hamasaki ...............................................................................Meiji Hirose sive items. Itsuyo Kusuda ..................................................................................Richard Ouchi However, because the quality of these organic products Mae Omuro ....................................................................................... Stella Kuwae Contributing Reporters were excellent and because people liked the taste of these Buddhist Women’s Association ................................................. Ms. Janet Kubota Boy Scouts........................................................................ Mrs. Shelley Pellegrino high-quality products, they refused to purchase any items Cub Scouts ................................................................................... Mrs. Erin Ferrer from the local stores. The local products could not compete Dharma School ......................................................................... Ms. Sandra Hirata Judo Club..........................................................................Mr. Ronald Hiyakumoto with the organic products. Preschool ................................................................................Mrs. Karen Yoshida STEM Scouting...................................................................Mrs. Courtnie Morihiro “A WELCOMING SPIRIT GROWS OUR COMMUNITY TEMPLE” - 2 - Tengan reminds temple and affiliate Deadline to submit Dana Award appli- organizations members cation is October 31 AITH TENGAN, MANPOWER CHAIR, WOULD LIKE EADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINEES FOR THE Tadai- to remind temple and affiliated organizations members chi Fukunaga Dana Award for Wailuku Hongwanji that their help is needed at the Chow Fun concession. Mission members is Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Shown below are the dates and times for their work assign- DNomination forms may be picked up at the temple office.

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