Jikoen Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Monthly Newsletter 1731 N. School Street • Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96819 March 2019 www.jikoenhongwanji.org Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3 Minister Phone Fax Cell Phone Email Rev. Shindo Nishiyama 808-845-3422 808-845-3423 808-754-3737 [email protected] Lumbini Preschool Phone Fax Web 808-845-7720 808-845-7721 www.lumbinipreschool.com THIS MONTH’S EVENTS Sangha family services are oered weekly on Sundays from 9:00a.m. (exceptions appear in the schedule). Dates and times subject to change without notice. Sun • Jikoen Spring Ohigan & Shotsuki Service 3/3 Speaker: Rev. Shindo Nishiyama • Sangha Family Service Sun Speaker: Rev. David Nakamoto 3/10 • Board of Directors Monthly Meeting Time: 10:30 a.m., Location: Temple Hondo Wed • Living Dharma Study Session — “What does ‘Namo Amida Butsu’ mean?” 3/13 Time: 6:00 p.m., Location: Temple Hondo, Facilitator: Rev. Shindo Nishiyama • Sangha Family Service Sun Lay Speaker: Tamayo Matsumoto 3/17 • JBWA Monthly Meeting Time: after service, Location: Temple Hondo Sun • Sangha Family Service 3/24 Speaker: Rev. Shindo Nishiyama Sun • Sangha Family Service 3/31 Speaker: Guest Minister Sun, 4/1 thru • Annual Bazaar Preparation (no hall use during this time) Fri, 4/5 Sat • Annual Jikoen Bazaar (see details on page 11) 4/6 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Location: Social Hall Sun • Hawaii Buddhist Council Hanamatsuri Service (NO SERVICE AT JIKOEN) 4/7 Time: 9:30 a.m., Location: Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin NOTE: Lumbini Preschool will be closed Spring Break March 18-22 and on Tuesday, March 26, Kuhio Day Jikoen Newsletter - March, 2019 1 JIKOEN ANNUAL SCHEDULE FOR 2019 Note: is is the updated version of the schedule originally 23 • Irei no Hi Battle of Okinawa Memorial Service – published in the December-January newsletter. Speaker TBA March 30 • Sangha Family Service – Guest Minister TBA 3 • Spring Ohigan & Shotsuki Memorial Service – July Rev. Nishiyama 6 • Jikoen Hatsubon Memorial Service – Rev. • BOD Meeting Nishiyama 10 • Sangha Family Service – Guest Minister TBA 7 • Jikoen Bon Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama 17 • Lay Speaker Sunday Service – Speaker TBA • BOD Meeting • JBWA Meeting 14 • Bon Dance Set-up (NO SERVICE) 17-24 • Family Promise – Hosted at HHH Betsuin 19-20 • Jikoen Annual Bon Dance 24 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama 21 • Bon Dance Cleanup (NO SERVICE) 31 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama 28 • Sangha Family Service – Lay Speaker TBA April August 6 • Annual Bazaar 2019 4 • NO SERVICE AT JIKOEN 7 • HBC Hanamatsuri (No Service at Jikoen) • BOD Meeting • BOD Meeting 11-18 • Family Promise – HOSTED AT JIKOEN 14 • Jikoen Hanamatsuri & Shotsuki Memorial 18 • Annual Temple Cleanup (NO SERVICE) Service – Guest Minister TBA 25 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama 21 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama September • JBWA Meeting 1-2 • WBWC in San Francisco (departure Aug. 30) 28 • Intergenerational Sunday – Hosted by Jikoen 1 • NO SERVICE – Okinawan Festival Dharma School 8 • Fall Ohigan & Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. May Nishiyama 5 • Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama • BOD Meeting • BOD Meeting 14 • (tentative) 2nd Semi-Annual Drive-Thru BBQ 12 • Mother’s Day & Eshinni-Kakushinni Service Chicken Sale (pending approval from Kapalama hosted by JBWA – Speaker TBA School) 19 • Sangha Family Service – Guest Minister TBA 21 • (tentative) 2nd Semi-Annual Drive-Thru BBQ Chicken Sale (pending approval from Kapalama • JBWA Meeting School) 24 • Lumbini Preschool Graduation Ceremony 22 • Lay Speaker Sunday Service – Speaker TBA 26 • Sangha Family Service - Rev. Nishiyama • JBWA Meeting 26-31 • Family Promise – Hosted at HHH Betsuin 29 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama June October 1-2 • Family Promise – Hosted at HHH Betsuin 6 • Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama 2 • Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama • BOD Meeting • BOD Meeting 13 • Intergenerational Activity Service – Jikoen 9 • Baccalaureate Service & Dharma School Dharma School Recognition Ceremony 16 • Jikoen Father’s Day Service – Rev. Nishiyama • JBWA Meeting (continued on page 3) 2 Jikoen Newsletter - March, 2019 (continued from page 2) 24 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama 20 • Sangha Family Service – Guest Minister TBA 28 • NO SERVICE – Th anksgiving Weekend • JBWA Meeting December 1 • HBC Bodhi Day (No Service at Jikoen) 27 • Sangha Family Service – Rev. Nishiyama November 8 • Jikoen Bodhi Day & Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama 3 • Shotsuki Memorial Service – Rev. Nishiyama • BOD Meeting • BOD Meeting 15 • Sangha Family Service – Guest Minister TBA 10 • Veterans Day Service – Lay Speaker TBA 22 • Year-End Temple Clean Up (NO SERVICE) 17 • Jikoen Eitaikyo Sangha Memorial Service with Keirokai Recognition – Rev. Nishiyama 29 • NO SERVICE 31 • New Year’s Eve Service -Rev. Nishiyama • Silent Auction & Th anksgiving Brunch • JBWA Meeting **All dates may be subject to change without notice. JIKOEN SUSTAINING MEMBERS A sustaining member is one who pays the Jikoen membership dues. Our temple’s main sources of income each year are: sustaining membership dues, fundraisers, and donations to our General Fund. It pays our operating expenses and is vital to the fi nancial health of Jikoen Hongwanji. Dues are also sent to Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii for various statewide outreach programs and annual operation. If you are not a member, please consider becoming one. Please contact our offi ce at 845-3422 or go to our website for an application form: https://jikoenhongwanji.org/membership/ Yearly Contribution: $90 per adult with dependent children $180 per family with dependent children Benefi ts of Membership: • Jikoen Newsletter and Buddhist Teachings • Hongwanji Mission Statewide Annual Calendar • Refreshments and Fellowship after Sunday Service • Discount fees on use of facilities for wedding ceremonies and memorial services • Discount fees on use of the social hall for private parties • 24 hour on-call emergency ministerial services • Jikoen Lumbini Preschool & Hongwanji Mission School Bene t It’s time again to make your commitment to Jikoen by paying your yearly dues for 2019. On behalf of Jikoen Hongwanji and Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, thank you very much. Jikoen Hongwanji has a new website! https://jikoenhongwanji.org Jikoen Newsletter - March, 2019 3 Hongwanji Day. My mother was born into a minister’s MINISTER’S MESSAGE family and married my father in 1946 right after the war. Rev. Shindo Nishiyama They established a childcare center for those who lost their parents in Omuta City’s large air raid during the Hongwanji Day war in 1945. I was told by my parents that there were many homeless children dying due to lack of food and On March 3, we will be observing Hongwanji Day. Do proper welfare facilities because of the destruction after you know how many years it has been since the Hongwanji the war. They decided to rescue those children by opening began its ministry in Hawaii? the temple and caring for them. This was the beginning Since Prince Shotoku established Buddhism in Japan of Shirasagi Preschool at my home temple in Fukuoka, over 1400 years ago, many people have depended on the Japan. They established the foundation of the preschool Buddha’s Teaching in their daily lives. Shinran Shonin, shortly after the war ended. They were committed to who was born in 1173, was one who would embrace providing childcare to protect those children’s lives and the Nembutsu Teachings and eventually establish the to help them with spiritual development through the foundation of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. teachings of Buddha. My mother used to tell me that there were all kinds of children. Some were runaways, 627 years after Shinran Shonin passed away, one of the some were always trying to start fights or steal money young Jodo Shinshu followers, Rev. Soryu Kagahi, left from the temple, but she always told them the same Japan for Hawaii to drop the seeds of the Nembutsu thing: the Buddha’s unconditional compassion is never among Japanese immigrants to provide them with judgmental, it embraces everyone without discrimination, a spiritual life in joy and gratitude with the Buddha and everyone is truly equal in the Buddha Dharma. Dharma. On March 3, 1889, in the evening, the first Jodo Shinshu service was held with offering of incense, Whenever I face problems at our preschool, I try to recall ringing of the bell, and chanting of the sutra at Kojima my late mother’s words. Today, I am a minister of Jikoen Hotel on Beretania Street. The true, sincere, and universal and the principal of its preschool. I thank my Mom for Nembutsu Teaching landed here in Hawaii from Japan the spiritual lessons and guidance she has provided me to 130 years ago. carry out the responsibilities I now hold at Jikoen. During the Hongwanji Day Service, we gather to express At Jikoen preschool, we have all kinds of children and our sincere appreciation to the founder of Buddhism, parents. Sometimes we have problems but I am grateful Shakyamuni Buddha, masters in China and Japan, that I am charged with the care of these very precious Master Honen, our founder, Shinran Shonin, his wife, children by protecting their lives and developing their Eshinni, as well as to many Jodo Shinshu ministers educational skills. My late mother told me, “every child is and lay members in Japan and here in Hawaii, Rev. equal and precious,” and so I must keep remembering her Soryu Kagahi, Issei pioneers, Nisei, and all dedicated advice and guidance as I commit my responsibility to our ministers and members of Honpa Hongwanji in Hawaii. preschool. I cherish my mother’s words as a precious gift. Okagesamade, because of all of them as well as the current Gautama Shiddalta had reasons for leaving his palace when ministers and members, we are able to enjoy the teaching he was young. He wanted to seek the path of awakening of universal unconditional love and great wisdom here at beyond human suffering to become an awakened one who Jikoen today.