Muchos budistas hoy en día pueden confundirse cuando leen la palabra "Ser" en mi artículo anterior porque recuerdan la doctrina de no ser o no ego que escucharon en otras partes de las enseñanzas del Buda. Sin embargo, tienen que entender la diferencia entre el yo que se niega y el verdadero ser/ realidad que se afirma en muchos sutras.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
La diferencia entre el falso ser y el verdadero ser (la Naturaleza Búdica)
Muchos budistas hoy en día pueden confundirse cuando leen la palabra "Ser" en mi artículo anterior porque recuerdan la doctrina de no ser o no ego que escucharon en otras partes de las enseñanzas del Buda. Sin embargo, tienen que entender la diferencia entre el yo que se niega y el verdadero ser/ realidad que se afirma en muchos sutras.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Quatro erros a respeito do Nembutsu (impermanência, karma maléfico/bom karma ou o número de recitações)
Monday, November 28, 2022
Méritos falsos (mundanos) vs méritos Verdaderos (supramundanos)
Pregunta: ¿Qué significa pretender nacer en la Tierra Pura a través de una bondad falsa, engañosa y envenenada?
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Sobre las "Cenizas Blancas"
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Explicaciones generales sobre "ser", "karma" y "renacimiento"
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
My answer to a comment comparing Zen with Jodo Shinshu
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Faith, saying of the Name and wish to be born
in the Pure
Land are the only three elements
of Amida's Primal Vow.
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He also compared the koan in Rinzai Zen with what Shinran called, giving up to any calculations. Then he mentioned this: "I would say that any practitioner of any Mahayanist school who is practicing with an obsessive mind for results, is in error".
Friday, July 10, 2020
Las Cualidades Iluminadas de la Naturaleza Búdica
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Park/nature: La Naturaleza Búdica y sus cualidades son como un hermoso parque |
translated from English by Kosho Arana Sensei
Como se mencionó anteriormente, la naturaleza Búdica tiene muchas cualidades innatas (atributos), también llamadas cualidades de liberación o Dharmakaya. Por lo general, se comparan con los atributos de una joya preciosa, como por ejemplo, su luz, color y forma que son inseparables de ella.
Monday, September 7, 2009
A book by Rev Unno is dennied access to the library of Tariki Dojo
Someone wanted the book "Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold" by Rev Taitetsu Unno to be published and promoted in my country and I answered with a clear and definitive "NO".
Why? Because some of the passages I found in it " are not in accordance with the true Jodo Shinshu teaching we find in the canonical texts of our school. Also, as it is stated at rule number 8th of the "Rules of the Dojo" that I established for the Jodo Shinshu dojos in Romania:
"In the library of the dojo, in the Jodo Shinshu section, only the texts from the canon of our school and the books which are in accord with these texts are promoted. No book which denies the teaching presented in the canonical texts, deteriorates, modifies or adds something which is not present in these texts, is allowed in the library of the dojo; also, the authors of these books will never be promoted, translated or invited at the dojo."
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
On the teaching of akunin-shoki, that evil person is the object of the salvation offered by Amida Buddha
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Sobre el significado budista del matrimonio y sobre el rol del esposo y la esposa
Translated from English by Juan Sebastian Hincapie Arana
En el estilo Amidaji de enseñanza siempre consultamos directamente el Dharma tanto en el aspecto más importante de la vida después de la muerte como en los detalles de nuestra vida diaria. En este caso queremos saber qué tiene que decir el Dharma sobre el matrimonio, por eso escucharemos las enseñanzas que el Buda Shakyamuni dio a las parejas (hombres y mujeres).
La mujer debe prestar atención y contemplar lo que el Buda dijo sobre los deberes de una buena esposa y el hombre debe prestar atención y contemplar los deberes de un esposo igualmente.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Four misconceptions concerning Nembutsu, impermanence and karma
If we wish to understand a certain object we look to its
qualities, to the elements that make it up. What are the elements and
fundamental qualities of life? A body and mind which are subject to an
inexorable cycle of birth, growing, maturity, decay and death.
Decay and death …. Especially these two must attract our attention in the same way we analyze a certain object: some qualities distinguish themselves from others and lead to the definition of the object.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Sobre o Buda Amida e sua Terra Pura
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Virtues and activities of the Enlightened Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land – commentary on sections 28 and 30 of the Larger Sutra
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Amida Buddha and His two attendand Bodhisattvas, Avalokitesvara and Mahasthamaprapta |
Friday, April 8, 2011
Don’t misunderstand the idea that “all beings will eventually become Buddhas”
To think that all beings will eventually become Buddhas is a dangerous trap for ordinary, unenlightened people who thus might strengthen the reliance on their false ego. It is another delusory thought of those who “copy and paste” the words of Enlightened Beings without discrimination.
“But the Buddha said this”, someone can argue....
Yes, He said it, but the meaning is that He as a Buddha will never stop until all beings will also become Buddhas. It is not that ordinary people will become Buddhas by their own power at some time in the future, but that the Buddhas will do everything in their transcendental powers to make this aspiration come true. That sentence is the wish and aspiration of the Buddhas, not what people will actually do without their help.
Only if we give up trust in our self power (the power of our unenlightened ego) and entrust ourselves to Amida Buddha’s Power (Other Power) will we become Buddhas. Otherwise, no one can escape birth and death, with the exception of a few special beings who are already very close to perfect Enlightenment but who have struggled for this since timeless past.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
About Amida Buddha and His Pure Land
A Buddha is not somebody like us, although at some point in the history He was. In a well known dialogue (Dona Sutta), a brahman named Dona asked Shakyamuni Buddha[1] who is He:
“Sir, are you a god?”
“No, brahman.”
“Are you a yakkha?
“No, brahman.”
“Are you a human being?”
“No, brahman.”
“When asked, ‘Are you a god?’ you answer, ‘No, brahman…’ When asked, ‘Are you a yakkha?’ you answer, ‘No, brahman…’ When asked, ‘Are you a human being?’ you answer, ‘No, brahman…’ Then what sort of being are you?”
Monday, September 26, 2016
Explicações gerais sobre “ser”, “karma” e “renascimento”
Saturday, July 11, 2020
The difference between the false self and the true Self (Buddha nature)
Many Buddhists nowadays might get confused when they read the word “Self” in my previous article because they remember the doctrine of non-self or non-ego that they heard in other parts of the Buddha’s teachings. However, they have to understand the difference between the self that is negated and the true Self that is affirmed in many sutras.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
A consciência de Alaya e a fé em Buda Amida
Saturday, October 24, 2020
You don't need to change the Buddhist morality when you are saved as you are
Whenever there is something my ego does not like in the Buddhist morality (I can honestly say that I am an animal possessed of myriads of blind passions and attachments) I don't try to change the teaching to make it more agreeable, but humbly recognize that I am incapable to follow it, ask for apology and bow down gratefully to Amida Buddha for saving me as I am.
The
Nembutsu of faith and gratitude is the only answer when comparing my limited
capacities with the Buddhist precepts and the example of virtuous Masters of
the past.
It is extremely important to never change anything from the Dharma, not even as small as a particle of dust. The Dharma is perfect even if our ego doesn’t find it agreeable and there is already a way out of samsara especially made for such wretched people like us – the Primal Vow of Amida Buddha, so we don’t need to change anything to be accepted.
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Honen Shonin's letter to nun Shonyobo
“I am very sorry indeed to hear about Shonyobo’s illness. Having heard that she is ill, in fact seriously so, I should like to go and see her, and make sure whether she is going right on with the practice of the Nembutsu up to the very end; but especially so when I remember how often she used to call upon me to ask questions about the way of salvation. So as soon as word reached me, I at once wanted to go and see her. But I had just before that decided upon the special Nembutsu practice (Nembutsu retreat) for some days, and not to go out of my chamber for anything whatsoever. Now circumstances have so changed, that I am tempted to reverse my decision and go at once to see her. But on further reflection I have come to feel that, after all, it does not matter one way or the other about such interchanges of courtesy in this world, for the fact is that we are in danger anyway of becoming foolishly attached to these earthly bodies of ours. No matter who it is, no one stays forever here in this fleshly body. The only difference is that either I myself or someone else must be left behind and the other go first. Then if we think of the interval of time that will separate us, that too is uncertain. And even though they may call it long, at the longest it is only like a short dream. So no matter how many times I think it over, the more I am convinced that the thing to do is to think only of our meeting in the land of Amida Buddha where, as we sit upon our lotus flowers, the cares of this world will have all clear away, and we shall converse together about the scenes and events of our past lives.