…maybe for a long, long time Japanese people are studying Chinese Culture through Chinese Characters. And then as you know, kobo Daishi studied kana hiragana and then Japanese people established some their own culture. You know that is how it is. Same thing…

…looking upwards to the altar. We pray or we ask for three treasures: buddha, dharma, sangha and with the merit of reciting Daishi Shindarani, we dedicate for the monks and students who is raided to us and passed away, and parents or ancestors of every…

…prajnaparamita and its merit its by its merit. We want to repay the mercy of great teacher shakyamuni buddha and joyo Daishi. Shintan means china. Shoso means the first patriarch, the first patriarch in china, Bodhidharma and first patriarch in Japan, Ehe…

…But actually you are expressing your true nature when you practice zazen, and that something is you know according to the tosan Daishi, it is someone in front back of the building, someone is talking something backyard of the across street. What are they…

…know. So we say you know you are you know rather something on or in what you do. For instance, you know, as Daishi said tozan ryokai daisho. You know you recite his name every morning. And Tatsuya Miroshi bowed you know, when Tatsuya Miroshi bowed all…