“To reflect on everything in daily life is to
nurture your Buddha nature.”
- Shinjo Ito
nurture your Buddha nature.”
- Shinjo Ito
Shinnyo-en USA
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Na Lei Aloha Foundation
www.naleialoha.org
Lantern Floating Hawaii
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Global Shinnyo-en Website
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Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
www.shinjoito.com
The Univers Foundation
www.univers.or.jp/index2.html
April 3, 2012 by
The boy in this “picture” is nearly four years old and is playing airplane. His roaring, jubilant engine glides on outstretched feather-like arms through the courtyard of Ogen’in, Shinnyo-en’s Buddhist temple complex in Tachikawa, Japan. His name is Keni. David, his father, likes to call him “the Kenster.” That October morning in 2009, David tells [...]
March 23, 2012 by
The IMAGINE Peace Conference took place at UC Berkeley on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Open to students and the public, this major event was co-sponsored by The LIVE PEACE Institute, a think tank for Peace, along with an extraordinary group of leading Peace organizations including The Shift Network, The Peace Alliance, PeaceJam, Pathways To [...]
March 13, 2012 by
Publish Date: December 11, 2010 Last week was our last of Summer Camp, so the patojos (kids) are done until January. That left this week for teacher training. Safe Passage brought in a trainer from Brazil to do a training with all of the teachers and program heads. The training was on a methodology called [...]
March 12, 2012 by
Courtesy of Monique Rubiano Here is a “picture” of my mother one spring morning telling someone on the street downstairs to wait, then stuffing our bread basket with fruit and a home-made queso fresco sandwich. My dad and I have just walked into the kitchen and wonder who the provisions are for. They’re for the [...]
March 7, 2012 by
Contributed by Andrew Flood, 2011-2012 Shinnyo Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. My time as a Shinnyo Fellow has thus far been an incredible experience in my development as a leader and a future public servant. I have worked to discover my passions and coordinate between my mind, my heart and my actions in my own [...]
February 15, 2012 by
The Shinnyo-en Foundation, as well as a few other foundations in San Francisco, supported the research and publication of a new book by Adjunct Professor Nora Silver, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. This book explores an often overlooked, but increasingly important issue facing nonprofits: understanding, attracting, and engaging ethnic volunteers. Telling the Whole [...]
January 25, 2012 by
The Shinnyo-en Foundation is a long-term supporter of the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC), and we are very proud to be the 2012 National Service-Learning Conference® (NSLC) World Sponsor. On January 20, 2012, the Shinnyo-en Foundation welcomed NYLC’s CEO, Kelita Svoboda Bak and hosted an open house with a small group of strong supporters of [...]
January 12, 2012 by
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. Nan was nominated for the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award by Scott Flemming, as Director of The Blake School’s Office of [...]
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...
