This is a presentation to South New Jersey Quakers from Zen Buddhists. I have been reading Buddhist texts, meditating and following the Dharma for decades and this video brought many smiles to my face.

Buddhism is not a religion as conceived in the West, but “a way of life, a way of being in the world”.

“All beings are Buddha!”

All beings share in the inner light promoted by Quakerism, all beings share in the enlightened nature of the countless Buddhas. When we see the divine in others, we also more fully see it in ourselves.

May all beings know peace!

Aroha nui,

Tūruapō ❣

01 Aug 2025, 13.35 (GMT +13)

The Peaceable Kingdom

We are not of this world, but are redeemed out of it. Its ways, its customs, its worships, its weapons, we cannot follow. For we are come into the peaceable kingdom of Christ, where swords are beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks, and none shall hurt nor destroy. — George Fox, Epistle 203 (1659)