Spring/Summer -- 2010
 

Shuso Hossen, 2010

 
 

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Hazy Moon priest and journalist, Nick Shindo Street, served as Shuso for this year's Shuso Hossen, the event that capped the summer training period.
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The Latest from Karen Maezen Miller, Sensei



In April, Hazy Moon priest Karen Maezen Miller, sensei, saw the publication of her second book, entitled Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life. Sangha member Julie Honmei Snider produced this elegant trailer for the book, which is available through New World Library and other outlets.
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Annual Pet Blessing

 
 

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A couple of weeks before the beginning of our summer training period, an eager crowd of four-legged critters and their two-legged companions gathered in the Hazy Moon's back yard for our annual Pet Blessing ceremony. Rev. J.J. Kyoji Anderson--who's kept on a very short leash by a certain rat terrier--officiated.
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Jukai for Two

 
 

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When Angie and Markus Nickol decided to put their careers as a judicial clerk and business consultant on hold for three months and temporarily decamp from Nuremberg to Los Angeles, they probably didn't expect to return to Germany with new names and a Dharma-family. But such is the transformative power of the Hazy Moon! Here are images from the double-jukai ceremony for Shinnyo (aka Angie) and Kansho.
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