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Soka Gakkai Butsudan
Shop Tour, September 5 | Restored Soka Gakkai Altars, an LCD Kokū Zushi, and a White Pearl Altar | Oubaitori.com
Hello, everyone. This is Shima, from Oubaitori.com. It is September 5, 2026. Rain was in the forecast, but outside it had stopped, so today's Oubaitori.com tour starts out of doors. Look at this sky. Behind me is the shop. This is our sh... -
Faith & Daimoku
A Message from Overseas — Feeling Kosen-rufu on a Saturday Morning (Morning Daimoku #1,151)
Good morning. How are you today? This is Shima, of Oubaitori. This is my Morning Daimoku, ten thousand chants. Yesterday, a large piece of business came to us. It came from overseas. It made me sit up straighter. Members Are Everywhere i... -
Faith & Daimoku
The Only One to Compare Yourself With — Morning Daimoku #1,150
Good morning. How are you today? Bloom your own way, at your very best. This is Shima, of Oubaitori. Morning Daimoku, ten thousand chants — entry #1,150. I woke a little earlier today I woke a little earlier today, and chanted with a cle... -
Faith & Daimoku
Keeping a Promise | Morning Daimoku #1,149 | A Vow to Myself and to the Gohonzon | Oubaitori.com
Good morning. How are you today? Bloom your own way, at your very best. This is Shima, from Oubaitori.com. This is my record of chanting 10,000 Daimoku each morning. Yesterday, I kept a promise I had made to my wife. A promise stays caug... -
Faith & Daimoku
A Promise I Kept Putting Off | Morning Daimoku #1,148 | Harmony in the Family | Oubaitori.com
Good morning. How are you today? Bloom your own way, at your very best. This is Shima, of Oubaitori.com. Morning Daimoku, ten thousand chants. Today is Wednesday, September 2. The shop is closed today. What my wife has been telling me si... -
Faith & Daimoku
Settling the Year in Four Months — A Morning on September 1 (Morning Daimoku #1,147)
Good morning. Are you well today? Bloom your own way, at your very best. This is Shima, of Oubaitori.com. This is my record of 10,000 daimoku this morning. Yesterday Was August 31. I Cleared It All Yesterday was August 31. A great, great... -
Faith & Daimoku
A New Stage Begins Today — Decide, Pray, Act (Morning Daimoku #1,146)
It is the morning of August 31, 2026. Today — and from tomorrow, September 1 — my stage changes. I feel that in my life, not as a hope but as a conviction. The days that were stacked, one on another Day after day, with chanting at the ce... -
Faith & Daimoku
The Story of the Kokū Zushi — Born from the Daimoku I Once Avoided (Live #155)
This was our live broadcast on August 29.I sat down to talk about the Kokū Zushi behind me. Almost the whole hour turned into something else — the three years when I could not chant.That was right, I think. The Kokū Zushi has no other or... -
Faith & Daimoku
“I Watch You on YouTube” — A Visitor, and a Prayer for Life-Change (Morning Daimoku #1,145)
Good morning. I hope you are well. This is Shima, of Oubaitori.I will be honest: I overslept a little this morning. I hurried through gongyo and moved into daimoku. And while I was chanting the prayer for changing life at its root, the m... -
Faith & Daimoku
To Live My Era with Daimoku at the Root — What the Word “Mission” Carries (Morning Daimoku #1,144)
Good morning. I hope you are well today. This is Shima, from Oubaitori.com.I chanted my ten thousand daimoku again this morning. And while I was chanting, a phrase came to me. ── To live my own era, with daimoku at the root. What "my era...
