🎅🎁 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎁🎅 Mrs. Hanamoku and I made Christmas cookies yesterday (today is the day after Christmas 2025). As usual, I made a few big cookies of my two friends, The Eternal Fishnu and the Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet. I made a sunfish representation (ocean sunfish, mola mola) of both … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2025 Message
Bodhi Day is the celebration of seeing clearly, the moment when the familiar world looks different because we finally understand what was always there. Awakening isn’t about lightning bolts, miracles, or magic. It’s about noticing what we usually overlook, and being humble enough to admit when we’ve accepted something too quickly, just because it was … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Secular Bodhi Day 2025 Message – Premature Convergence
Today (December 1, 2025) begins what I call the "Bodhi Season"—the event-packed seven days before Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment, literally dealing with his demons. He sure did go through a lot for sitting under a tree! For those who cannot take this entire week to sit under a tree, as the 100th post on this … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Bodhi Season 2025 Meditation
Bodhi Day 