tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580569388141809017.post5663133060912153593..comments2023-05-12T19:07:35.469+03:00Comments on AMIDAJI INTERNATIONAL TEMPLE 阿 弥 陀 寺: The Pure Land is NOT here and nowJosho Adrian Cirleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267565293117701846noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580569388141809017.post-7828073849248095732008-07-31T05:44:00.000+03:002008-07-31T05:44:00.000+03:00Excellent teaching, Dharma Friend.All these people...Excellent teaching, Dharma Friend.<BR/><BR/>All these people who say "samsara is nirvana" simply don't KNOW what they're talking about. They may have some intellectual apprehension, but their lives are riven by duality and disconnectedness just as yours and mine.<BR/><BR/>That's why Master Shinran and Master Honen never talked in non-dual terms of the classical Mahayana (Path of the Sages). They were deeply honest - honest enough to admit they simply didn't KNOW that samsara is nirvana, the way Shakyamuni Buddha, or Mahasattva Nagarjuna, know it.<BR/><BR/>So they concentrated their message on what they DID know. And what was that? They knew (as you say) that they were grasped by the real and true Buddha Amida - that the root of their karma had been cut - and that they would take birth and attain Buddhahood in Amida's Pure Land.<BR/><BR/>And we can know the exact same thing, in the exact same way. That - and that alone - is what SHINJIN is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com