New Thought Center of Hawai`i
A Sanctuary of Aloha for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each individual's unique spiritual path.
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We are located at:
Pualani Terrace,
81-6587 Mamalahoa Hwy
Building C302 in Kealakekua,
next door to Antiques and Ice Cream (large red building on makai/ocean side of the highway. From south we are on the left, just a few tenths of a mile past Konawaena School Road traffic light.
Phone: 808-323-2232
for email: [email protected]
for mail: P.O. Box 333, Kealakekua, HI 96750
Our facilities are handicap friendly with lots of paved parking area.
Childcare is provided at Sunday morning services.
For more information about New Thought, a map and what we offer please visit our website at:
www.newthoughtcenterofhawaii.com
Our officers for the year 2025 are:
Jaime McEwen
President
Lia Segerblom
Vice-President
Pasha MacGregor,
Secretary
Ramona Owen
Recording Secretary
SUNDAY, September 27, 2026
10 AM
Upcoming Presenters
10/4: Momi Nobriga, "Honoring the Sacred Web: The Gift Economy of Reciprocity," music by Vibodha
10/11: Drew Womack, program & music
10/18: Kumu Lehua Lopez, "Lokahi," music by Mahina Saunders
10/25 (Rescheduled) Keri Sender, "A Journey Through Moon Lodge Rememberings,"
music by Rashani Réa
11/1: Genevieve Brunet, music by Loren Wilken
11/22: Manuel Roberto, music by Bernice & Roberto Manuel
11/29: Kumu Keala Ching, program & music
12/6: Holiday Decorating Party
12/13: Lindsay Roth, "As Above, So Within: You are More than Your Sun Sign
12/20: Tiare Lum, Winter Solstice Ceremony
Events page or click HERE
For more information about workshops go to our Events Page
For links to archived speaker videos on YouTube, visit our Archives of Speakers
Waking Up in an Age Thatʻs Lost Its Way:
The Bodhisattva Vow & Moral Leadership
With Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
Music by Loren Wilken
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We live in a time of upheaval and dizzying change. We are divided as a country and disconnected from the natural world. This might well be called an Age of Resentment, on both the left and right. Too many of our leaders show little of the character we would hope to teach our own children. We are distracted, disembodied, and increasingly alone. Loneliness has become an epidemic, and cynicism now masquerades as wisdom.
The moral injury of this moment is a new and disorienting kind of trauma. And yet, beneath it, something in us longs for a revolution in how we live and treat one another, a longing to recover our sense of dignity, sanity, and basic goodness.
This Sunday, Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse will explore the nature and promise of this Bodhisattva vow. The vow is an aspirational intention, the very beating heart of Zen practice that commits to living one's life in service to the awakening and well-being of all beings. It offers a timeless model of moral leadership, one grounded in wisdom, compassion, and core values that are universal and enduring. We long to see ourselves and one another in this clear light of awakening, and to care for each other and tend the planet we all share.
Roshi Robert is a fully empowered Zen teacher and priest in the White Plum lineage. In 1994 Roshi and his wife, Roshi June Ryushin Tanoue, co-founded the Zen Center of Hawaii, located in Waimea on the Big Island. They moved to California in 2000 to work for the ZenPeacemakers and eventually found themselves in Chicago where they started another Zen Life & Meditation Center, Chicago (ZLMC), located in Oak Park, IL, in 2010.
The mission of the Zen Center is to empower people to live a Zen-inspired life of openness, empathy, and clarity. They have a thriving Sangha community and offer programs such as meditation, retreats, workshop and numerous innovative programs, many of them based on applied mindfulness for specific ailments that afflict us in the 21st century. To learn more about it, visit https://www.zlmc.org
Roshi June is also a fully empowered Zen teacher and priest in the White Plum lineage and a Kumu Hula. She started the Halau I Ka Pono (The Hula School of Chicago) which offers classes to all ages and does many performances honoring the spiritual tradition of Hawaiian dance.
Roshi Robert has been practicing in the Zen and Vajrayana traditions for over 50 years. He's been teaching for 30 years. His root teachers were Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He is also an artist. His paintings can be found on his personal website https://www.althouseart.com
A Birthday Surprise
Dear members and friends of New Thought Center,
This past week, as we board members were reflecting on our milestone birthday, number 55, and how best to observe it, we got a big surprise. Some dear friends, who presented many meaningful programs at New Thought Center about a quarter century ago, arrived in Kona for a 10 day visit. (They now live near Chicago.) I learned of this by chance (Is there really such a thing?) and one of them, Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse, offered to give a talk if we could fit him into the schedule.
Past birthday celebrations have included highlighting our history and honoring those who came before us. This year that history will come to life as we acknowledge these special guests, Roshi Robert and his wife June, who is both a roshi and a kumu hula. For those of us whose connection to NTCH goes back more than 20 years, it will be a joyful reunion, for the rest, a time of discovery. Even if we didn’t have the past connection, it would be a great honor to host Roshi Robert, a distinguished spiritual teacher in the Zen tradition. (See below for details.)
We will welcome our newest members as part of the main Sunday service as planned, and hopefully our guests will be able to celebrate with us afterwards as we enjoy a special birthday potluck complete with birthday cake and a main dish provided by New Thought. Our music minister, Loren Wilken, has thoughtfully chosen songs from different eras of New Thought for us to sing during the service, and he will play mellow jazz music, similar to what he does professionally at Sunset Kai lanai, as we transition to party mode after the closing song. Come if you can! It will be a great day.
Sincerely,
Pasha MacGregor, Program Coordinator
