Bill Tetsui Press
Bill Tetsui Press is a Zen Buddhist practitioner and tech executive who served as the 2024-2025 Head Trainee at the Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA) under Roshi Kipp Ryodo Hawley.
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Aug 17, 2026
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Bill Tetsui PressGUEST
So let's begin by putting our hands together and acknowledging the first peoples of this land, the Tongva people.
Bill Tetsui PressGUEST
They're indigenous to this land, and they've stewarded it for over 7,000 years till it was taken from them by the Spanish missionary system in the late 1700s, and then ultimately by the US.
Bill Tetsui PressGUEST
The Tongva tribes have never relinquished their rights to this land, including the land we're sitting on today.
Bill Tetsui PressGUEST
So let's begin by acknowledging our ongoing use of their land, and the lands of wherever you are if you're on Zoom.
Bill Tetsui PressGUEST
And let's bring to mind the many people still losing their own lands today due to war and colonization throughout the world.
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Sharon ArchbellAUDIENCE
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