26 Jul

Posted at 14:36h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/aq-X3lADRXA?si=0cGlCE8rAMKZwFff&t=1063" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1785101607463{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Welcome to our Family Service! This is the last service for the month of July. Winding down from our Obon festivities, we can reflect up on the siginficance of the stories of Obon, the dancinig under the colorful lanterns and the thoughts of family members gone. Today we will talk about Karma and Merit Transference in connection to Obon. We have a short film called Yakuza Ondo created by Ethan Okamoto. We are glad you are here! Warning: Yakuza Ondo is mainly for adults, or should not be watched without adults. As a guideline, it should be probably considered TV-14 or TV-MA for violence, language, and depictions of suicide. We think the message is worth contemplation. Learn more about the film here: https://filmfreeway.com/YakuzaOndo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

25 Jul

Posted at 17:10h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/AxU82-7cd7g?si=YNw_LpjL1e71crQG&t=1439" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1785024096239{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Good morning! This is from our Obon and Hastubon Service. Our Hatsubon families have been invited to join us in observing the first Obon Service since losing their dear family member. With the Bon Odori festivities here last night and then the service today, the full spectrum of life and death becomes realized in a very poignant manner. We are invited to see the full picture rather than the preferred and abbreviated version. Truth has impact. Welcome to the temple.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

11 Jun

Posted at 10:39h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/NhL6HYp6-3I?si=yeFvBJzfDXSbp625" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1781199501975{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Today is the June Shotsuki Service, our monthly memorial service. We welcome our Shotsuki families to share their memorial time with those who come for the family service portion. Today we have stories and thoughts on CONTENTMENT. Is it a quiet moment with our pets, the aftermath of a good meal, or a part of our spiritual path?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

17 May

Posted at 16:19h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/JELV9Iw6EVA?si=cc7CQH8fCSAT90WW&t=2071" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1779059773631{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Thank you for joining us today! Welcome to our annual Gotan-E service. We celebrate the birth of Shinran Shonin, the founder of our Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism. It is through his guidance that we are able to enter the Shin Buddhist Path of Nembutsu recitation. As we reflect upon his life, we are able to reflect upon our own.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

23 Apr

Posted at 08:40h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/8Z0BfDyfvxE?si=oi_Ek5iB1_4Z22w-&t=1087" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776958098646{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]In this Dharma Message, we get a story about a debate between a Chinese court advisor and a Buddhist monk, another about Rennyo Shonin, and reflect on our perspectives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

23 Apr

Posted at 08:24h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/9IZvaK7hpg0?si=ROAJnHe-F6cCN2uL&t=1106" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776957804165{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]This Dharma Message is from our 2026 Spring Ohigan Service. Shunki Higan-E. Ohigan is observed twice each year, at the time of the spring and fall equinox. It is a beautiful time of year, conducive to reflection and meditation. We are encouraged to dedicate our lives to move from this shore of attachments and difficulties to the other shore of the extinction of attachments and difficulties that we call the Pure Land.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

23 Apr

Posted at 08:16h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/IrhnPbuLdXg?si=uo7r8SWJ_j4T5prv&t=1045" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776956895148{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Note: Unfortunately, we missed some of the audio in the first part of Reverend Opal's Dharma message! But it was a wonderful message and worth sharing even partially. Basically: Weezer.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

01 Mar

Posted at 08:49h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/3maC53LHo-w?si=zYthiQQhsnkKHT-w&t=1892" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1772555913146{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Good Morning! Welcome to our Shotsuki Monthly Memorial Service for the Month of March. It is always special to welcome our Shotsuki Families who come to honor Family Members they have lost in the month of March of any year. Today, we will look back again at the happenings from the recent BCA National Council meetings two weeks ago, and look forward to events of our Temple 110th Anniversary. They tie together, just as the Shotsuki Service always reminds us, as we look back and forward together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

22 Feb

Posted at 20:32h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/3feQd2eYahg?si=NXx2LPyWFEbbux9n&t=931" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1771820690565{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Welcome to our Family Service today. Last week we had a break from the Temple Service to watch the BCA National Council Eitaikyo Service provided virtually from Renton, Washington. It is nice to be back together here in Alameda. Our talk today will be on Indra’s Net, and how it connects to the interactions we were surrounded by while attending the meetings, workshops, and services at the national meetings last week.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

08 Feb

Posted at 11:05h in services
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/6bJ0VGxOl4k?si=3IVpABf6YlSys1qS&t=1183" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1770705442337{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Welcome to our Annual Eitaikyo and Nirvana Day Family Service. We will be able to share explanation of Eitaikyo and stories of Nirvana Day, the passing of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...