Dharma Talks

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Sensei talks about Buddhist views on animals and their relative stature to humans. He refers to the Jataka Tales during his talk.

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Sensei talks about many things today. The common thread of his talk is of lifes impermanence, all beings will die. Just as each person must live their life alone, so must we experience death alone.

With life being so short let us live everyday and try to be kind to all people. We must let go of wrongs done to us in the past and forgive those who have wronged us.

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This service talks about the fall ohigan. Shin Buddhists observe ohigan twice a year at the fall and spring equinoxes where the day and night are of equal duration. Symbolically this instance of equal day and night is represented by the painting “Two Rivers and White Path.” Sensei talks about the ideas represented by this famous Buddhist painting.

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Sensei finds some old papers which causes him to reflect upon change and how that change affects the Temple. Sensei talks about the change and the future of the Midwest Buddhist Temple. http://www.midwestbuddhisttemple.org

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This week’s dharma talk is given by Sensei Siebuhr. This week commemorates the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This segment commences with an interview of a survivor of the Hiroshima devastation and ends with a short talk by Sensei. For those listeners in the Chicagoland area, this weekend is the 53rd Annual Ginza Festival. Come down to the Temple for the BEST teriyaki chicken in Chicago. Visit our website for details.

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This week’s dharma talk is given by Sensei Siebuhr. Sensei starts with an explanation of “What is the Buddhists’ Bible?“.

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This week’s talk is given by Ellen Dunleavy, a lay dharma leader. Ellen tells a personal story which causes her to reflect on the fact that we’re not the center of the universe except where infinite compassion is concerned.

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This weekend we celebrated Obon, a Japanese date honoring the dead. Part of the Obon tradition is a group dance or Bon Odori. Sensei briefly talks about the origins of Obon and then goes on to tell of the fable of the monkey and the Buddha.

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This week’s talk is given by Kay Schroeter, a lay dharma leader of the Midwest Buddhist Temple. Kay reflects upon the writings of Reverend Kono, the founding minister of the Midwest Buddhist Temple.