Red Lotus

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

A man in a red shirt standing with hands in a prayer position in front of a large white stupa with flags

A large white rounded stupa with a golden statue of the Buddha, and an altar in front covered in flowers and fruit

Me smiling and taking a selfie in front of the same pagoda

Ornate golden statues of various Buddhas and bodhisattas that serves as the main altar

Some pictures from the New England Peace Pagoda, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of it being opened on Turtle Island with Nipponzan Myohoji, in coordination with the local Wampanoag tribal leaders, such as Sow Turtle. This stupa or pagoda contains relics of Shakyamuni Buddha gifted to Guruji.

Hinga Dinga Durgen!

110% snuggled up with blankets and cats.

photo of Jane Goodall in Taipei in a public lecture, a stuffed animal monkey holding a banana is on the desk beside her

I am so sorry to hear the news.

Jane Goodall has passed away, October 1, 2025. She just spoke in Taipei in June: "Young people are the future...we've been stealing their future for a very long time..So we've got to spend time with them and help them understand [that there] is a way forward."

It’s really really hard to make friends as an adult 😔

Oh they DEFINITELY know about Kalonymus ben Kalonymus

Happy Birthday 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

Better a Faggot than a Fascist

💪🏽😤♥️

Namu Myoho Renge Kyo

I’m gonna be trying real hard with this one 😤

"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."

~ Assata Shaku

Rest in Power 🌸🌸🌸

Headed to see Infinity Castle 👺

Received a temporary Honzon and Inari Daimyojin Ofuda in honor of Higan-E from my local Nichiren Shu Sangha 🙏 Namu Myoho Renge Kyo

Rapture this, rapture that

Check out this big Daddy I painted :)

Jain cosmological map of adhaidvipa
India, 1900

I just found out that Grape Nuts tastes like neither grapes, nor nuts.

As a fellow pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jew, it really shouldn’t even need to be said that being against genocide isn’t antisemitism.

A dvd case for the movie conclave, with three Catholic priests and a nun. It is resting on a yellow cushion

Purchasing physical media >>>

Profile of a squirrel skull on a stump. Green plants in background.

Squirrel skull I found in the yard.

A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, a pouring rain, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, a raven keeping watch, and a basket of emotional support scones.

In ancient Chinese lore, the Huan (讙) is a fierce, one-eyed cat-like beast crowned with three flowing tails. Its roar silences a hundred beasts, tearing through the air like thunder. But Huan is no mere predator. It’s a sacred guardian. 1/2
#caturday

now that we are once again at war with the mods, we need to get back to our roots

Remember, if someone asserts that your weekend plans of reading a good book, drinking multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of scones “doesn’t sound exciting”, then they are simply not the friend you thought they were.

I won’t lie, I thought Groyper was a kind of bunion.

A stack of colorful books, containing the writings of nichiren

The altar of a nichiren shu temple, with the central gohonzon statues, an inari kamidana on the left, and memorial plaques on the right

A close up of the central gohonzon filled with statues of Buddhas and bodhisattvas, with nichiren at the center before an incense bowl

The saijo inari kamidana with many fox statues in front of it, and a calendar of the gods behind it

Happy to return to my Nichiren Shu Sangha and reinvigorate my practice 🙏

Namu Myoho Renge Kyo 🙏

Nichiren going into exile on the island of Sado

Nichiren going into exile on the island of Sado https://www.wikiart.org/en/utagawa-kuniyoshi/nichiren-going-into-exile-on-the-island-of-sado