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Please watch for the upcoming newsletter for the formal announcement.

The Rinzai Zen Mission is pleased to invite you, your family, and friends to our Obon service and dance being held August 17th – this Saturday!!!

The Service begins at 6pm and the Dance Starts at 7pm.

Please come and experience the traditional dance styles of Okinawa, the only one of its kind on Maui.

We look forward to seeing all of you as we share our live Okinawan music and performances as well as the delicacies offered by our community.

Please CLICK HERE to visit the current Newsletter Page on the Paia Rinzai Zen Mission Website.

We have some what more sand in front of our beach, and more turtles.

Please CLICK HERE to visit the current Newsletter Page on the Paia Rinzai Zen Mission Website.

There is a very important message in this Newsletter from the President of the Board of Directors, Alan Nago, regarding the future of Rinzai Zen Mission.

It is Hanamatsuri time! We will celebrate Shakyamuni’s birthday on April 7 (Sunday) at 10:00 a.m. This year’s guests from Japan are the Reverend Kurihara, Secretary General of Myoshinji School of Rinzai Zen Buddhism, and his wife. This is their first trip to Hawaii. There will be good food and games with prizes for everyone. We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Tropical Storm Iselle landed in the early morning of July 20. Five trees and a light post fell on the makai side of our grounds. The winds were so strong that they knocked down many trees at the Country Club and the county property on the beach, as well as the Maui Electric post in Baldwin Park. Thanks to our president Alan Nago and the demolition workers next door, we were able to clear all downed trees and branches before the Obon.

You may have realized that the house on the beach is now gone and fewer trees are there. It is a very bare land now between the ocean and us. We hope the Pacific Ocean will give us many more years to enjoy our sanctuary.

Bon Dance practice

Our Bon Dance practice will be only four Tuesdays: July 15, 22, 29, and August 5, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Please come to Paia and enjoy practicing Okinawan dance. Bring your friends too for some fun times.

Bazaar

We would appreciate donations for the bazaar. Fruits (bananas, oranges, mangoes, pineapples, lemons, etc.), vegetables, plants, and cut flowers are welcome.

Baked goods (bread, mini cake loaves, cookies, bars, party mixes, etc.) are also good sellers. Mochi other than nantu would be good too. Health Department rules don?t allow for baked goods with cream, nor rice dishes, unless they?re made in the RZM kitchen on the date of sale. All baked goods must be labeled with ingredients. Please list ingredients in the order of quantity, listing the major ingredients first. If you wish the labels be done for you, please bring a copy of the entire recipe.

Bazaar items may be brought to RZM on Saturday, the morning of the Obon. If you wish to have your donated item sold at a certain price, please make a note of it or let us know.

We are mailing this newsletter via the U.S. Postal Service to many places in the country and overseas. The newsletter is our way of communicating and keeping in touch with family and friends.

If you have email, would you please let us know so we can send this newsletter via email? Send your email address to info@rinzai-maui.org. You may also find our
website at rinzai-maui.org, which has the newsletters,
photos, and lots more information.

If you don’t have internet access, we will keep sending you the paper newsletter.

Rev. Yamaguchi will Translate

Rev. Yamaguchi will help you with the translation of historical papers. You may have old Japanese documents or a family tree sitting in the drawers of your Butsudan or of your parents’ old dresser. Rev. Yamaguchi is still able to read old Japanese and translate to English( poor one). It is good to know the family history with your parents’ papers, before Rev. Yamaguchi becomes too old. Just call him and ask what he can do for you.

This is the 25th year of the rebuilt Rinzai Zen Mission and it started to leak in the main temple building. It is so fortunate that we have very dry winters here in Paia and we could finish all three buildings at the same time. The bell house was way overdue, but nobody lived under it and nobody complained. The bell house now has 50-year presidential shingles. All other buildings have 30 year shingles. We hope our buildings stay in good shape in the years to come.

Thank you very much for your support for this very important project. Because of your generous DANA(donation) we are still able to keep going as the only Rinzai Zen temple on Maui. Our Vice President Mr. Valentino Dieguez has been in charge of this project and worked hard to oversee this work, from choosing a contractor to checking the workmanship. Thank you Val, job well done!

MRCG’s Rummage Sale will be on Saturday, December 7th, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. You may drop off things at RZM at the following times:

If you can’t make these times, call 268-2209 to drop off items at another time. The Mission will not have its own rummage sale in the near future, so we can all help MRCG have a successful one!