Dai-En in Japan

Here’s an update on Dai-En Bennage Roshi, who has been volunteering in Northern Japan: Dear Sangha, I just spoke with NiOsho (Dai-En Bennage Roshi) over the phone.  Here is the update: After departing from Koen Hunter and Nanshin White in Kyoto, NiOsho went to visit Fukan-san in Miyagi prefecture. Fukan lives just on the edge

A Mother’s Love

This story was in the Mainichi Daily News today. It’s about the mother I mentioned in The Saddest Day post who got a heavy machinery license to search for her daughter’s missing body. Her daughter was finally found several miles from Okawa Elementary School. Mother determined to keep up search for missing children after daughter

West Mountain Hero

Today is my friend Takashi Nishiyama’s 62nd birthday. On March 18th, three days after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, Nishiyama-san, posted this comment on his Facebook wall: I’m ready to go the disaster relief. But great wall is very difficult for government! 
I’m ready to go to the disaster assistance, but big wall of government