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SATURDAY JULY 9, 2022 Toronto Buddhist Church will be holding services at cemeteries again this year. Please check the below schedule for times. CEMETERY CENTRAL SERVICE LOCATION TIME SERVICE LEADER SALEM U.C. CEMETERY 1:00 PM PAULINE KNUDE PINE RIDGE MEMORIAL GARDENS 1:30 PM PAULINE KNUDE ELGIN MILLS CEMETERY SEC. 2/8 10:30 […]
Read the articleReflecting and Cicadas Such stillness——– The cry of cicadas Sinks into the rocks. This seventeen-syllable haiku was written by Basho (1644- 94), who was a poet and thinker of the first rank. When first I came to Toronto in 1970, I was 25 years old. If I had seen that poem then, I would not have […]
Read the articleDOKI-DOKI Yui-enbo asked “Although I say the Nembutsu, I rarely experience joyful happiness nor do I have the desire to immediately go to the Pure Land. What should be done about this?” Then Shinran responded “I have been having the same question also, and now you, Yui-enbo, have the samethought.” (abbreviate) “It is the working of blind passion which suppresses […]
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