On May 31st 2015, I spoke at the Buddhist Temple of Chicago on the theme of … well, lots of themes. Among them: cultural intersections of modern Buddhism, killing a chicken for the first time, impending parenthood, and the recent musical genre “buddhagrass” aka Buddhist Bluegrass. Ok, it’s not really a genre per se… yet. As a closing I perform an original version of the Japanese Buddhist classic “Ondokusan”.