“Like throwing dust against the wind, when you act against the wind,
when you act against truth, it will only blow back on you.”
- Shinjo Ito
when you act against truth, it will only blow back on you.”
- Shinjo Ito
Shinnyo-en USA
www.shinnyoenusa.net
Na Lei Aloha Foundation
www.naleialoha.org
Lantern Floating Hawaii
www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com
Global Shinnyo-en Website
www.shinnyoen.org
Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
www.shinjoito.com
The Univers Foundation
www.univers.or.jp/index2.html
November 29, 2010 by
Jim Kielsmeier, who is the founding president and CEO of National Youth Leadership Council, and a longtime friend of the Foundation shares a very personal reflection through photos taken in the US and Canadian Rockies. A wonderful gift to you from a wonderful friend.
November 29, 2010 by
Last Thursday before dawn thousands of people began to convene on Alcatraz Island for the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering. Native Americans and people from all over the world gathered to give thanks to the “Creator and Mother Earth for our Survival and Spirit of Resistance” in commemoration of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the [...]
November 19, 2010 by
Rebecca Richardson is currently a junior at Stanford University majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). The CSRE is an interdisciplinary major that allows her to combine courses from several different departments and craft her own area of concentration. For the past two years she has been volunteering on a weekly basis at [...]
November 18, 2010 by
On October 22nd, 2010, New York senator, Suzie Oppenheimer, cut the ribbon to the new Digital Media Lab, a center for innovation, at Eastview Middle School, built in order to assist us in our education. The Global Ambassadors greeted Senator Oppenheimer and interviewed her, asking questions about education, leadership and her goals for the future. [...]
November 6, 2010 by
November first is Día de Todos Santos or All Saints Day, which is widely celebrated in Latin America (many Americans are familiar with the Mexican commemoration of this feast day, Día de los Muertos). This Catholic celebration holds special significance in Guatemala, and it is given as a national holiday. I took the opportunity to [...]
November 1, 2010 by
On July 22-26, 2010, eight Catholic teens from the Diocese of San Jose and six Shinnyo-en Buddhist teens from the San Francisco Bay area and Chicago, paticipated in an interfaith immersion trip to New Mexico. I facilitated this trip and worked with Los Niños International to coordinate the volunteer and cultural experiences for our group. [...]
November 1, 2010 by
Her Holiness connected deeply with so many participants at The Women’s Conference in Los Angeles on October 25th. The content and presentation of her remarks were professional, personal, and powerful. How lovely Her Holiness looked! Her hair was beautiful; her suit simple and elegant; her scarf matched the set background. Her gentle beauty and soft [...]
November 1, 2010 by
Her Holiness Shinso Ito receives standing ovation from over 5,000 women at Women’s Conference on Oct. 25th. Click here and be inspired! More than 30,000 women from all walks of life gathered at the 2010 Women’s Conference hosted by California First Lady Maria Shriver and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the Long Beach Convention Center from October [...]
Ms. Nan Peterson is the Director of Service Learning for The Blake School located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is also the first and only Senior Fellow of the Shinnyo-en Foundation. Read more...
