Editor’s note: Rev. Jerry Kyosei Hirano, Director of the BCA’s Center for Buddhist Education (CBE) and Resident Minister of the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple and Supervising Minister of the Honeyville, Ogden and Idaho-Oregon Buddhist temples (IOBT), presented the following speech on May 7 at a Minister’s Continuing Education (MCE) seminar at the Jodo Shinshu Center in Berkeley, California. The Wheel of Dharma is reprinting the text with Rev. Hirano’s permission. “Rare is it to hear the teaching,...

Editor’s note: Rev. Jerry Kyosei Hirano, Director of the Center for Buddhist Education and Resident Minister of the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple and Supervising Minister of the Honeyville, Ogden and Idaho-Oregon Buddhist temples (IOBT), wrote the following article for the IOBT newsletter. The Wheel of Dharma is reprinting it with Rev. Hirano’s permission. “Let us cease from wrath, and refrain from angry looks. Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all people have hearts, and...

Whenever it comes to December, my mind seems to relax a little and I am allowed to look over the past 12 months and reflect on my life....