A big thank you to everyone who came out to support the 2023 San Mateo Buddhist Temple Bazaar! We hope to see you at the temple again soon!
Thank you for supporting the 2023 Bazaar!
San Mateo Buddhist Temple
Autumn Ohigan Equinox Service
September 24, 2023
Guest Speaker
Rev. Etsuko Mikame
San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin
御講師
三瓶悦子先生
サンノゼ別院
We warmly welcome you to join us in person at the San Mateo Buddhist Temple or via Zoom Meeting for our Autumn Ohigan Equinox Service on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
２０２３年９月２４日の９時３０分から秋季彼岸会をお勤めします。
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Gyofu Chanting (Click here for chanting text)
9:00 a.m. Online Tour of BCA Art Exhibit
9:30 a.m. Autumn Ohigan Equinox Dharma Service with English Language Message by Rev. Etsuko Mikame
10:30 a.m. 日本語法話 三瓶悦子先生 Japanese Language Dharma Message by Rev. Etsuko Mikame (本堂 Hondo)
10:30 a.m. Dharma Discussion (Sangha Room)
To join us online via Zoom, CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.
オンラインでご参拝したい方はここにクリックして、”Live Broadcast of Services”に登録してください。
SMBT Fall Sangha Clean Up Day
The Purpose of Our Temple (September 10)
As we begin our new Dharma School year with our Fall Sangha Clean Up Day, we will look to Rennyo Shonin’s “Letter on Construction at Ozaka,” in which he reminds us that the purpose of our temples is to be a place where all people feel welcome to gather and find guidance for their lives from the Buddha’s teachings.
. . . the fundamental reason for living in this place is not to spend a relaxed life here or enjoy a life of luxury and glory or a life of seclusion appreciating flowers, birds, breezes and the moon. My sincere hope is only to see an increase in number of the practicers who have attained the entrusting heart and of those who recite the nembutsu － all for the sake of attaining the supreme enlightenment.
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Sofu Chanting
9:00 a.m. Sangha Social Hour
9:30 a.m. Dharma Service
10:30 a.m. Fall Sangha Clean Up
We welcome you to join us in person!
To join us online via Zoom , CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.
Losing and Winning (September 3)
As summer draws to a close, Rev. Adams will offer Dharma reflections on his recent experience attending a Bay Area Major League Baseball game.
From Shinran Shonin’s True Teaching, Practice and Realization, Chapter on The True Buddha and Land:
May the compassionate light protect me
And keep me from losing the mind aspiring for enlightenment.
I praise the voice of the Buddha’s wisdom and virtue.
May all beings of the ten quarters having ties with the teaching be brought to hear it,
And may those who aspire for birth in the land of happiness
All, everywhere, have their hindrances dispersed as they desire.
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Sofu Chanting (click here for chanting text)
9:00 a.m. Radio Taiso Exercise
9:30 a.m. Dharma Service
10:30 a.m. Shotsuki Hoyo Monthly Memorial Service
10:30 a.m. Dharma Discussion
To join us for this hybrid service via Zoom, CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.
Treasure this Human Life (August 20)
Rev. Adams will share a Dharma Talk about why birth into human life, despite all its difficulties and disappointments, provides the most precious opportunity for attaining awakening and is considered to be even more ideal than birth in a heavenly realm of pleasure and satisfied desire.
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Sofu Chanting
9:00 a.m. Mindfulness Meditation with David Crampton
9:30 a.m. Dharma Service
10:30 a.m. Dharma Discussion (Dharma Room)
We welcome you to join us in person!
To join us online via Zoom , CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.
Obon and Hatsubon Service
August 13, 2023
Guest Speaker
Rev. Noritaka Imada
Resident Minister
Buddhist Church of Florin
Supervising Minister
Buddhist Church of Lodi
御講師
今田法翔先生
フローリン仏教会
駐在開教使
ローダイ仏教会
担当開教使
We warmly welcome you to join us in person at the San Mateo Buddhist Temple or via Zoom Meeting for our Obon and Hatsubon Service on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
２０２３年８月１３日の９時３０分から盂蘭盆及び初盆法要をお勤めします。
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Gyofu Chanting (Click here for chanting text)
9:00 a.m. Sangha Social Hour
9:30 a.m. Obon and Hatsubon Dharma Service with English Language Message by Rev. Noritaka Imada
10:30 a.m. 日本語法話 今田法翔先生 Japanese Language Dharma Message by Rev. Noritaka Imada
To join us online via Zoom, CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.
ご参拝したい方はここにクリックして、”Live Broadcast of Services”に登録してください。
Obon Dancing
Saturday, August 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us at the San Mateo Buddhist Temple as we dance with joyful gratitude for the guidance we receive from those who have crossed over to the Other Shore.
Practices Monday and Thursday evenings (July 31, Aug 3, Aug 7, Aug 10) at 7:00 p.m.
Obon Cemetery Services
On Saturday, August 12, the San Mateo Buddhist Temple Sangha will hold our annual Obon cemetery services at the following times and locations:
Schedule
Please click map links below for detailed locations.
9:30 a.m. Skylawn Memorial Park (MAP)
10:10 a.m. Golden Gate National Cemetery (MAP)
10:40 a.m. Olivet Memorial Park (MAP)
11:00 a.m. Japanese Cemetery in Colma (MAP)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Memorial: How We Remember (August 6)
As we remember the lives taken by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Rev. Adams will share impressions of the recent film “Oppenheimer” and consider how what we choose to remember and how remember the past impacts the way we live in the present moment, inspired by the following verse from the “Hymn of True Shinjin and the Nembutsu (Shoshinge)“:
[Nagarjuna] teaches that the moment one thinks on Amida’s Primal Vow,
One is naturally brought to enter the stage of the definitely settled;
Solely saying the Tathagata’s Name constantly,
One should respond with gratitude to the universal Vow of great compassion.
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Shoshinge Sofu Chanting (click here for chanting text)
9:00 a.m. Radio Taiso Exercise with Juliet Bost
9:30 a.m. Dharma Service
10:30 a.m. Shotsuki Hoyo Monthly Memorial Service
To join us for this hybrid service via Zoom, CLICK HERE to sign up for “Live Broadcast of Services”.