About Living Dharma

Living Dharma is a space of inquiry and practice.

Rooted in Pure Land Buddhism, it invites us to live the Dharma not through belief or doctrine, but through everyday actions of care, reflection, and presence.

Here, Amida Buddha is not a deity to be worshipped, but a symbol of Inmeasurable Life and Inmeasurable Light—representing time and space beyond the human.

Through cleaning (as care for habitat) and chanting (as ancestral meditation), this platform explores how Buddhist practice can become a path of ethics in the everyday.

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About Me

I’m Shoukei Matsumoto — a thinker, writer, and practitioner of Pure Land Buddhism. Executive Producer for Camphor Tree Village, 100th Anniversary project of Musashino University, and hosts ‘voice' a podcast of dialogue with global leaders.

My work explores how ancient wisdom can respond to modern questions—ecological collapse, algorithmic life, post-growth leadership, and the ethics of legacy.
I’ve spoken with global thinkers such as Yuval Noah Harari, Audrey Tang, Roman Krznaric, and Markus Gabriel, and contributed to platforms like the World Economic Forum and the United Nations UNDP.

I am the CEO and Co-Founder of Interbeing, Inc., a Visiting Professor at Musashino University, and a Young Global Leaders alumni of the World Economic Forum.

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If Living Dharma resonates with you, I warmly invite your support.

This project is a personal initiative—exploring the intersection of Buddhist wisdom, everyday practice, and the ethics of becoming good ancestors.

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Thank you for walking with me.

Inquiries & Collaborations

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Note: This site is an independent initiative by Shoukei Matsumoto and is not formally affiliated with any organization. It may, in the future, evolve into a more structured public platform.

Living Dharma (Full Vision)

We are living in a time when the human world is being radically redefined.

As AI, ecological collapse, and global instability unfold, Buddhist practice offers not escape but re-engagement—with life, time, and the more-than-human world.

Amida Buddha, in this context, is not a supernatural figure to believe in.
Instead, Amida becomes a poetic name for two vast dimensions of reality:

• Inmeasurable Life — the flow of time that binds ancestors and descendants

• Inmeasurable Light — the field of space that connects all beings and relationships

Through everyday rituals—

• Cleaning, as reverence for shared habitat

• Chanting, as remembering the past and caring for the future

• Listening, as ethical openness in an age of noise—

we can begin to embody a Buddhism rooted not in belief, but in relational presence and responsibility.

Pure Land practice thus becomes a path of becoming good ancestors—not by transcending this world, but by participating in it more deeply, more ethically, and more humbly.

Living Dharma is not a destination. It is a question, an opening, and an everyday invitation.

Let us care for the future, together.
Let us become good ancestors—through presence, trust, and shared practice.

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