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Showing posts with label NEMBUTSU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NEMBUTSU. Show all posts
Thursday, August 1, 2024

The Nembutsu of Faith and Gratitude in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism (video teaching by Daigan Sensei of Amidaji Sangha in Uruguay)

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Daigan Alejandro Sensei is a lay teacher in Amidaji branch of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, soon to be ordained a monk in our Sangha. He has been v...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

We can always say the Name of Amida Buddha

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Question: If it is said that it does not matter how many times we recite Nembutsu why does Shinran urge us to say it constantly in this hymn...
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...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

The relation between hearing the Name, faith and saying the Name of Amida Buddha

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Amida Buddha promised in His Primal Vow that those who entrust to Him, say His Name and wish to be born in His Pure Land (“sincerely entrust...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Nembutsu - the Path of the Last Dharma Age (commentary on the words of Bodhisattva Manjushri)

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  "In the Record of Holy Chu-lin Temple , it is recorded: 'While Bodhisattva Samantabhadra and Bodhisattva Manjusri sat facing each...
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...
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 ...
Monday, August 8, 2022

There is no good or bad Nembutsu

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Click here to watch more videos in the DHARMA TALK playlist.  There are 128 videos there until now, so you'll certainly find one that is...
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 ...
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...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Nembutsu and daily life

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  last revised February 16th, 2023 Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “If we only put our trust i...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Say Nembutsu as you are

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Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said, in reply to a question by Zenshobo:  “Tho...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Focus on Amida’s Name, not on your monkey mind

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “Question: ‘When evil thoughts will keep arising within th...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Nembutsu is the same no matter who says it

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “When someone once said to Honen that his repetition of the ...
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, June 14, 2022

Honen said the Nembutsu as if already saved by Amida

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary Honen Shonin said:   “Where one is to receive something fr...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

Honen Shonin and the nun in the Ninnaji temple

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  Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary “There was once a nun in the Ninnaji temple who came to Hone...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Abandon any practice which is not mentioned in the Primal Vow

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Master Shan-tao said: "Abandon the teachings that Amida Buddha abandoned, observe the practice that Amida Buddha observed, and leav...