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Sermons by Reverend Eisei Ikenaga

Oct 24th 2021 Zoom Sermon

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Oct. 24, 2021 Zoom SermonVery recently, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted by American doctors atNYU Langone Health. They attached a pig’s kidney to a human. The experiment was asuccess, far exceeding the expectations of its researchers. As we all know,...
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Aug. 29, 2021 Zoom Sermon

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  On Aug. 24, 2021, a man was sentenced to twelve years in prison for leaving his 91-year-old father unattended. Actually, the word “unattended” is a severe understatement.Danny Norris, aged 57, was the sole caretaker of his father, Elmer Norris. At approximately...
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June 6, 2021 Zoom Sermon

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I read an interesting May 25, 2021 article in Newsweek about the progress of COVID-19 vaccinations in India. The Newsweek article focused on one village, Sisoda Village, which is in India’s Uttar Pradesh State. This caught my eye...
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May 2, 2021 Zoom Sermon

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A very special project just ended on Saturday, April 24, 2021. This project, led by the Human Adaptation Institute, called Deep Time, involved a group of fifteen volunteers, aged between 27 and 50, to live in the Lombrives Cave in France for forty days. The Lombrives...
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Mar. 14, 2021 Zoom Sermon

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On Thursday, Mar. 11, 2021, President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. It is called the American Rescue Plan. It provides for an extension of the existing $300 weekly unemployment benefit through Sept. 6, and to provide a tax break on $10,000 in...
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New Year’s Zoom Sermon – Jan. 1, 2021

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To put it mildly, 2020 was extremely challenging. I speak for myself, but I have never seen the degree of unrest and suffering that we have experienced throughout the entirety of 2020. And, it was not just on one issue, but three formidable ones—health, social, and...
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Dec. 6, 2020 Zoom Sermon

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LOTUS Dec. 6, 2020 Zoom Sermon Texans take football seriously. There was a high school football game on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, between the Edinburg High Bobcats and the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High Bears where an incident occurred. It happened in the second quarter of...
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Nov. 1, 2020 Zoom Sermon

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Virginia State Senator Richard Stuart and his wife, Lisa Stuart, were walking along the Potomac River four years ago when they discovered an odd-looking rock jutting out on the water’s edge. Upon closer examination, the senator could identify that it was not just a...
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Oct. 25, 2020 Zoom Sermon

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Senator Kamala Harris has a niece who is a 36-year-old lawyer. Her name is Meena Harris. On October 17, 2020, Meena posted an image of a Hindu goddess known as Durga on her Twitter account. This would have been fine except that Durga’s head was replaced with that of...
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Sept. 13th 2020 Zoom Sermon

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LOTUS On Sept. 8, 2020, a spokesperson for AstraZeneca, one of the companies developing a vaccine for COVID-19, said that their Phase 3 trials of the vaccine have been put on hold because one of the participants in the United Kingdom suffered a serious unexplained...
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Portland Lay Dharma Study Group – Click here for Instagram Posts

The Lay Dharma Study Group usually meets on the second Sunday of the month, at 1130am – 12:30pm, where we explore Buddhist topics together. The group is using “Awakening to the Lotus: An Introduction to Nichiren Shu”. Volunteers facilitate the sessions for three month stints; other volunteers research the topics under study to share with the group. Example topics are below.

  • Oct. 12, 2025 Life of Nichiren
  • June 8, 2025  Life of the Buddha.
  • June 8, 2025  Ichinen Sanzen Part 3
  • May 25, 2025  Movie discussion of “Nichiren” (1979)
  • April 13, 2025  Ichinen Sanzen Part 2

Study Guide: “Awakening to the Lotus Sutra”