[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/JELV9Iw6EVA?si=cc7CQH8fCSAT90WW&t=2071" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1779059773631{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Thank you for joining us today! Welcome to our annual Gotan-E service. We celebrate the birth of Shinran Shonin, the founder of our Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism. It is through his guidance that we are able to enter the Shin Buddhist Path of Nembutsu recitation. As we reflect upon his life, we are able to reflect upon our own.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/8Z0BfDyfvxE?si=oi_Ek5iB1_4Z22w-&t=1087" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776958098646{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]In this Dharma Message, we get a story about a debate between a Chinese court advisor and a Buddhist monk, another about Rennyo Shonin, and reflect on our perspectives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/9IZvaK7hpg0?si=ROAJnHe-F6cCN2uL&t=1106" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776957804165{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]This Dharma Message is from our 2026 Spring Ohigan Service. Shunki Higan-E. Ohigan is observed twice each year, at the time of the spring and fall equinox. It is a beautiful time of year, conducive to reflection and meditation. We are encouraged to dedicate our lives to move from this shore of attachments and difficulties to the other shore of the extinction of attachments and difficulties that we call the Pure Land.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/IrhnPbuLdXg?si=uo7r8SWJ_j4T5prv&t=1045" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1776956895148{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Note: Unfortunately, we missed some of the audio in the first part of Reverend Opal's Dharma message! But it was a wonderful message and worth sharing even partially. Basically: Weezer.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/3maC53LHo-w?si=zYthiQQhsnkKHT-w&t=1892" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1772555913146{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Good Morning! Welcome to our Shotsuki Monthly Memorial Service for the Month of March. It is always special to welcome our Shotsuki Families who come to honor Family Members they have lost in the month of March of any year. Today, we will look back again at the happenings from the recent BCA National Council meetings two weeks ago, and look forward to events of our Temple 110th Anniversary. They tie together, just as the Shotsuki Service always reminds us, as we look back and forward together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/3feQd2eYahg?si=NXx2LPyWFEbbux9n&t=931" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1771820690565{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Welcome to our Family Service today. Last week we had a break from the Temple Service to watch the BCA National Council Eitaikyo Service provided virtually from Renton, Washington. It is nice to be back together here in Alameda. Our talk today will be on Indra’s Net, and how it connects to the interactions we were surrounded by while attending the meetings, workshops, and services at the national meetings last week.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1769875239863{margin-top: 40px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/live/6bJ0VGxOl4k?si=3IVpABf6YlSys1qS&t=1183" align="center" css=".vc_custom_1770705442337{border-top-width: 20px !important;border-bottom-width: 20px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=""]Welcome to our Annual Eitaikyo and Nirvana Day Family Service. We will be able to share explanation of Eitaikyo and stories of Nirvana Day, the passing of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...