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Showing posts with label HONEN SHONIN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HONEN SHONIN. Show all posts
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Remember to say the Nembutsu

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last revised February 18th, 2024 Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary You must believe that Nembuts...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Say the Nembutsu with an undivided mind

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary „I beg of you to believe with ever-deepening fervour, and with...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

The transmission of the Nembutsu faith from Master Shantao to Master Honen

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “One night Honen dreamed that he saw a large high mountain f...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Honen’s one-page testament

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary "The method of final salvation that I have propounded is ...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Honen’s search for salvation

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Here is the story of Honen’s meeting with the Primal Vow in hi...
Friday, September 9, 2022

The superiority of the Nembutsu Path according to Honen Shonin

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen had the following dialogue with Shinjakubo from Harima: ...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

On people who cannot be saved by Amida Buddha

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said: “Indeed it matters not how vile we be wheth...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Self-power practices and teachings are not appropriate for our times

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said:   " Regardless of whether it is of Mah...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Master Honen’s reason for the founding of a separate Pure Land school and my reason for founding Amidaji

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Amida Buddha is my strength. Amida Buddha is my refuge. Amida Buddha is my salvation. Amida Buddha is all I transmit to others . Click here ...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Just say the Nembutsu without adding anything to it

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “Once a devotee from the Chinzei district came up to Kyoto to ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

On those who slander the exclusive Nembutsu practitioners

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said in An Outline of Nembutsu :     "It i...
Monday, July 11, 2022

The thirteen contemplations are provisional practices while the Nembutsu of faith is the main Gate to the Pure Land

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary   “Jogan Shonin (1168-1251) thus stated: ‘Someone said to Ho...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Don’t listen to teachers who deny birth in the Pure Land through Nembutsu

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “It is indeed lamentable and regrettable that there are thos...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

The protection by Amida Buddha can reach only those who exclusively say His Name in faith

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  Click here to return to " Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary" " The merit of protection by Amida Buddha ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

The meaning of “no working is true working” in relation with our birth in the Pure Land

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Click here to return to " Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary" Honen Shonin said:  "If you think that birt...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Do not mix Nembutsu with other practices

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary "The profound heart is the heart that believes profound...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Faith, Nembutsu and aspiration are one

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary If one desires to attain birth in the Pure Land, both his he...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

The number of Nembutsu recitation is NOT important as long as we rely on Amida’s Power

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Click here to return to " Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary " There are some who teach that Nembutsu must be sa...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Self-power and Amida's Power

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said:   “It is impossible to predict the length o...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

The uniqueness and universality of Nembutsu

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said:  “When we say that the Jodo (Pure Land)...