Hawaii Betsuin Autumn Higan Major Service
September 26, 2021 | 10 a.m.
Online via Zoom

Rev. Daido Baba, Executive Assistant to the Bishop

Guest speaker is Rev. Daido Baba, Executive Assistant to the Bishop at Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii headquarters.

Dharma Message: “Buddhism is the teaching for a living person”

Please not that Rev. Baba is also speaking at our Autumn Higan Talk Story event via Zoom on September 25.

The Zoom link will be distributed in the September 26 edition of the Betsuin Bulletin (a weekly email newsletter). If you are not already subscribed, you may subscribe at hawaiibetsuin.org/email-signup/. If needed, you may call the office to get the Zoom link.

A video recording of the service will be posted the following week on our YouTube channel, after some editing and the addition of captions.

About Our Speaker

Reverend Daido Baba currently serves at Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii headquarters as the Executive Assistant to the Bishop. Prior to July 2021, he served for seven years as an associate minister at Hilo Betsuin.

Baba-sensei was born in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan and his home temple is Shineiji temple in Chiba prefecture. He received his Tokudo ordination in 2002 and Kyoshi ordination in 2008, the same year he graduated from Ryukoku University in Jodo Shinshu studies. He received a master’s degree from the same institution in 2010.

Reverend Baba and his wife Aki have three children, each of whom attends Hongwanji Mission School.

Baba-sensei’s hobbies include watching sports (especially, soccer), playing tennis, skiing, hiking with his family, and traveling.

About Higan

“Higan” means “the other shore.” It is an abbreviation for “to-higan,” meaning “reaching the other shore (of nirvana).”

During the vernal and autumnal equinoxes when days and nights are of equal length, temples conduct Higan services that encourage us to meditate on the harmony of nature and devote ourselves to the realization of this harmony in our inner lives.