By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

By @jhlui1

2015-January Shinnyo Podcast – Awareness of Needs Defining Selflessness Qualifying our Conversations Know Yourself as You Get to Know Others The Difficult Task of Acting as Themselves Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard From the Shinnyo 2015 Annual Guidance notes: This year’s items of practice: Contributing to the world throu…

2014-December Shinnyo Podcast – Introductions and Listening Why Do We Listen? Flat-lining Conversations Listening As-if Your Life Depended On It Increasing the Value of Your Time Spent Listening Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard In order to communicate effectively, we just need to listen. As much as we may like to … Continu…

2014-November Shinnyo Podcast – Sales and Selling How I Came to Know Something About Selling Stuff Establishing Rapport Qualifying the Prospect Closing the Deal Overcoming Objections Everyone Can Be Satisfied What Does Selling Have to Do with Spirituality? Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard From this month’s “Shinnyo Teachin…

2014-10 Shinnyo Buddhism Podcast – Love What is Love? A World of Delusions I Loved Him/Her: Why Didn’t He/She Love Me Back? Attractions and Attachments Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard From a WikiHow on the subject, Love is expressed as an action and experienced as a feeling. Yet, love has … Continue reading 2014-10 Shinny…

2014-09 Shinnyo Buddhism Podcast – Attract or Avoid: Perceptions in Life Attraction and Emotion Avoid the Void The Nature of Perception It’s Still a Rock Revealing The Path Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard Do you believe there is a difference in strength between attraction and avoidance? Or to put it … Continue reading 201…

2014-08 Shinnyo Buddhism Podcast – The Lights of Reflection Shiny Points of Light on the Freeway (of Life) Finding the Brightness (in Everyone) Seeing Beyond the Grime and Noise Cleaning a Little Every Moment Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard Have you ever driven down the road on a sunny morning … Continue reading 2014-08 S…

2014-07 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – On Loss Social Media and Physical Loss of Life Energy Transformations The Ever-Turning Wheel of Dharma You Create Permanence Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS)oriTunes or via Flipboard While life in the eternal world (whether you call it heaven, mecca, nirvana, spiritual or the any other term) goes on, and on, … C…

2014-03 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Namu/Eza/Spiritual Awakening Namu – What is it and Why do we say it? Eza/Elevation Training – What is it? Why do we participate in it? Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard Namu (Japanese, 南無, lit. devotion) from the Sanskrit word “namas” or “namo”, which means resigning … Continue reading …

2014-02 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Olympic Peace Shinnyo – What Exactly is It? Opening Address by International Olympic Committee President, Thomas Bach Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes Shinnyo [Japanese, lit. truth] refers to the nature of reality, and striving to orient oneself around it allows one to see things for what they really ……

2014-01 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – The New Year Saisho – How to Use the Force Using Diversity to Strengthen and Broaden Community Self-Reflection Leading to Global Peace Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard (Based upon Shinnyo-en’s Annual Guidance and Points of Practice for 2014 – Year of the Horse) In HH … Continue reading…

2013-12 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Listening, are You? What’s Wrong With Everybody Else? Learning to Listen in a Different Way Adjusting Your Vision of the World Looks Like a Duck, But Does It Walk, Talk and Act Like One? Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard (Based upon guidance in Resonance, Issue … Continue reading 2013-1…

2013-11 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Leadership By Example Hey, You’re Religious. Why Aren’t You Perfect? We Still Hate Being Wrong How We Become Unintentional Hypocrites The Path is Wherever You Are and Wherever You Go Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard (From Resonance, Issue 6, 11/2013) In 1952, Shojushinin, co-founder of…

2013-10 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – On Breaking Bad (Precepts) The Five Precepts (Rules of Engagement) Why Learning from Others Comes First Extending the Awakening Universe Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes A precept is a rule of conduct originally developed as standards for monks and nuns to know when their behavior had strayed from … Co…

2013-08 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – The Spirit of Living and Giving Looking Differently at the Difficulties in Your Path Serving or Spoiling? What’s the Difference? Motivation and Recognition to Serve Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard The post-Summer activities of Shinnyo-en often follow a bounty of community service even…

The Travels of the Shinnyo Masters Making a Connection to the Past Master Shinjo on Why Do We Have Buddha Images? 2013-July Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Sacred Images Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes The busts of the Shinnyo Parents and the Two Dojis that had been placed at Shinchoji (a Shinnyo-en main temple … Continue reading 2013-07 Sh…

2013-05 Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Podcast – A Short History of Buddhism A Little Mahayana and Theravada Background About Walking Along the Buddhist Path HH Keishu Shinso’s Successor Announced – Rev. Torikai Takashi Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes In the centuries after Shakyamuni entered final nirvana, Buddhism developed into vario…

Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes 2013-April Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Podcast – Sesshin Meditation Training Why Meditate? Why Guided Meditation? What’s the Difference between Guided Meditation and Sesshin Training? At a workshop on leadership given by Henry Givray, president and CEO of Smith-Bucklin, he cites two qualities of great …

2013-March Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Podcast – Going With The Flow Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes Watching How Traffic Gridlock Forms Harmonious Paths in Disaster The Bodhisattva Vow Traffic patterns, much like check-out lines at a store are fascinating to observe – people always jostling for a better position, racing ahead only t…

2013-February Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Your Heart and The Stars Creating Your Own Destiny (and Reality) Why the Stars are Prominent in Buddhism Practice from Your Heart Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes Some people say they were born unlucky. Yet we are the ones who create our future, and we can change our … Continue reading 2013-Febru…

2013-January Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Arts and Growing [audio https://jhlui1.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/201301_shinnyo_podcast.mp3] Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes 2013 Guideline, Items of Practice, Sonouta Many of history’s greatest leaders share a commonality – a side affection for the Arts, whether it be music, painting, fictiona…

2012-October Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Building a Trusted Reputation The Importance of Establishing Trust Consistency Builds a Foundation Learning to Say, “Yes…” Choosing the Difficult Path 2012-October Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Building a Trusted Reputation Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes During an int…

2012-September Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Truth, Self and Goodness Learning Oneness With Truth Selfish Behavior or Why is the World So Cruel (to Me)? On Being a Good Person Audio File: 2012-September Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Truth, Self and Goodness Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes September was the mont…

Learning A Lot From Bees Having A Purpose Anger, Aggression, and Acceptance 2012-August Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Attachments & Nature [audio https://jhlui1.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/201208_shinnyo_podcast.mp3] Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes The August 2012 Nirvana, the monthly publication of Shinnyo-en, actually deal…

2012-July Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Living Boddhisattvas / Embracement Living as a Boddhisattva Embracement of Everything, even Your Enemies 2012-July Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Living Boddhisattvas / Embracement [audio https://jhlui1.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/201207_shinnyo_podcast.mp3] Subscribe to this Podcas…

2012-June Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast The Path to Happiness How The Goreiju Melody Came to Be 2012-June Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes The path to our own happiness and the path to making others happy are one and the same. When we completely dedicate ourselves towards the … Continue…

2012-May Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Extras Podcast Dealing with Dharma and Causes of Karma The Perpetual Cycle of Karma Please Do Not Feed the Bears 2012-May Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Extras Podcast (Dharma/Karma) [audio https://jhlui1.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/201205_shinnyo_extra_dharma_podcast.mp3] Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) …

Blending Buddhism with other Beliefs and Religions 2012-May Shinnyo-en Buddhism Introductory Extras Podcast [audio https://jhlui1.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/201205_shinnyo_extra_bridging_podcast.mp3] Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes Within our sangha (or buddhist community) there are to be found Christian Buddhists, and Catholic Buddhists…