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Showing posts with label ETHICS/PRECEPTS AND JODO SHINSHU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ETHICS/PRECEPTS AND JODO SHINSHU. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The indiscriminative salvation offered by Amida Buddha is NOT an encouragement to commit or justify evil

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said:  „There are those who say that the effort...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Goodness or badness are NOT the cause of birth into the Pure Land

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Some people were conversing about the future life, some sayi...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

On vegetarianism according to Mahayana sutras and Amida Buddha's indiscriminative salvation (video teaching)

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   You can find more video teachings on the playlist  DHARMA TALKS  in my YouTube channel. Useful articles related with this video teaching:...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

Only the Buddha knows what is good and evil and we should humbly accept what He said

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Question: In the Postscript of Tannisho it is said: “In truth, myself and others discuss only good and evil, leaving Amida’s benevolence...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

You don't need to change the Buddhist morality when you are saved as you are

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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 bl...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Some statements on family, couples and women

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I state the following so that people in my Facebook list or readers of my website and books should know who I am as I have never been eva...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

The karmic situation of beings who have no aspiration for Enlightenment and Shakyamuni’s encouragement to do good in daily life and wish to be born in the Pure Land – commentary on sections 31 - 40 (PART II) of the Larger Sutra

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                                 fragment from my commentary on the  Larger Sutra - this is a work in progress and ...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

No self improving programs for Jodo Shinshu followers

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It must be very well understood that when I speak about trying to have a good behaviour towards others in our daily lives, I do not propos...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ryogemon - Profession of Faith (short explanation and commentary)

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Ryogemon is the creed of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist teaching, composed by Rennyo Shonin. In it we find all we need to know and accept in o...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The meaning of “there are no precepts”

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Question: “Why does Jodo Shinshu deny and discourage the observance of Buddhist precepts? Can I observe precepts and be a Shinshu follower? ...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Words of Rennyo useful for meat eaters

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Here is a passage from one of Rennyo Shonin’s letters which is very useful for those of you who are incapable of abstaining from meat o...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

AGAIN ON JODO SHINSHU ETHICS

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Rev. Masanobu Nishiaki wrote in his article “Lifestyle of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist” about the relation between ethics and Jodo Shinshu: “Ple...
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