Two men standing on either side of the nichiren shu head priest in front of the altar, smiling and holding certificates in their hands with their Buddhist names on them

A ma with glasses smiling and taking a selfie in front of the altar and statue of nichiren daishonin

Two men with purple sashes over their left shoulders are standing in front of a head priest at the altar. They are all reading off a sheet of paper as another priest seated to the side has hands in prayer position

Two men with purple sashes over their left shoulders have their backs to the camera facing the priest who is looking at one of them facing the camera

Today I took Jukai and received my Buddhist name, Shōei 韶英, meaning splendid flower of the Dharma. I am joining Nichiren Shu as a practitioner of the Lotus Sutra.

The same age that Nichiren was when on this holiday of Rikkyō Kaishū, he faced the rising sun on Mt. Kiyosumi, and recited the O-Daimoku

Inner cover art for the first volume of Yokohama Kaidaishi Kikou, depicting the protagonist "Alpha" in a wistful, forgotten roadside.

I want to take a minute to talk about an obscure post-ecological apocalypse cyberpunk piece of media: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip)

'Recommendation' By Thich Nhat Hanh in 1965 #ThichNhatHanh #Buddhist #Buddhism #BuddhistSky
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

bubbles

སར་མ་རབ་རབ་མར་མ་དང༌། ས་མ་ཟལ་པ་ཆ་བར་དང་། ར་ལམ་གག་དང་སན་ལ་བ། འདས་བས་ད་ལར་བལ་བར་བ། ། ། ། །
"Like a star, hallucination, candle, magical illusion, dewdrop, bubble, dream, lightning, or a cloud — Know all compounded phenomena to be like this." ~Diamond Cutter Sūtra #dzogchen #dharma

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

A statue of the baby buddha in a bowl of sweet tea shaped like a lotus flower

The nichiren shu gohonzon of statues next to the baby buddha statue that is enclosed by a canopy being held up by an elephant statue

The shrine to inari Daimyojin, with spring flowers, candles, and may fox statues around it

A closeup of the canopy and elephant statue holding up the baby Buddha statue, with flowers and Easter eggs to the side

🌸 Happy Hanamatsuri from the Nichiren Shu Temple of Greater New England 🌸

The term cult itself is also basically a piece of polemical vocabulary, so there is a fundamental way that how it is pejoratively used has a lot to do with how Christianity contrasts heresy with orthodoxy.

Lindau island via google earth aerial

The island of Lindau, Germany (pop. 3,000), sees 115 train departures per day.

The entire state of Texas and all of its cities combined, by comparison, sees 56 daily Amtrak departures.

Fill the air with poems
So thick
Even bombs
Can’t fall through
-Peter Levitt

"After my death, some of you will seclude yourselves in the forests and mountains to meditate, while others may drink saké and enjoy the company of women. Both kinds of Zen are fine..."—Zen master Ikkyu Sojun

👷‍♂️👈🙅‍♀️🛶

A squirrel in a tree, resting its head on its arm. There is a small clothesline to the left, where a towel and mittens hang from the branches. It is also snowing.

Chilly Morning❄️🐿️
#art #illustration

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Six iPhones, held by social media content creators, taking overhead photos of a bowl of dates.

Iftar, Day 21

This is also how I felt when I found out about the Shingon-risshū keeping the vinaya this whole time 🤯

The cover of the first volume of the English edition of Yokohama shopping trip with the main character alpha leaned against a motor bike

The inside cover of Yokohama shopping trip featuring two colored images of alpha, the first from the cover in Japanese and the second of her holding a camera in the second volume

Time to indulge in Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and a slow cozy end of humanity 🙏😌

Key Animation: ???
Anime: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (ヨコハマ買い出し紀行) (1998)

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If this age isn’t Mappo, I don’t know what is.

The shadow of a cat blocking a tv screen with a. Japanese man harvesting yuzu on the screen

Silhouette

Some advice:
Be kind.
Collect books, not enemies.
Leave the world a better place.
Stay on the good side of the old gods and you will forever find peace in the mossy dark places of the world.

Parents, have you talked to your kids about the dangers of the old forest?
The seductive lure of mossy forgotten tombs wreathed in dark malevolence, and the ancient nameless horrors slumbering within?

I need 3, but desire more of 4

He's a monster assembling his own axis of evil who want to kill babies in their quest for wars of real estate. He needs to be impeached the second you can do it.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Good soup made with leftover celery 🥣 #cottagecore