Each of us is coming from different backgrounds and practice with the same horizon: promoting a collaborative non-sectarian approach all through the lens of the Lotus Sutra, Vinaya, and Bodhisattva precepts. We bring the influence of diverse teachers, mentors, and sources that we have personally learned from or who have had significant spiritual impact.

“Now, Ānanda, if it occurs to any of you—‘The teaching has lost its arbitrator; we are without a Teacher’—do not view it in that way. Whatever Dhamma and Vinaya I have pointed out and formulated for you, that will be your Teacher when I am gone.”

—DN 16

Where the Vinaya exists, the application of teachings, the Dharma, will be sustained. The Vinaya and Sutras always are the same well we drink from as practitioners and measure from. With great compassion, it is our teachers who have preserved and made the dharma apparent and relevant. The root teacher and role models whose footsteps we follow are Shakyamuni Buddha and the Great Bodhisattvas.