Excerpt from Buddhism of Compassion
By Rev. Josho Adrian Cirlea
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Reverend Sakakibara said:
“When you take a bath, you enter with the dirtiest part of the body: your feet. In exactly the same way, you enter the Vow with all your defilements. The nembutsu enters your body through the dirtiest part of your body – the bottom of your feet. Amida does not say you must come with your body cleansed, but that you should come with the body that is doomed to the six realms of transmigration. The Buddha himself comes to you begging you to let him save you. As my teacher, Professor Ikeyama, has expressed it, the Buddha says, bowing to you, “I beg you, please come soon”. Even if you are a defiled being, you will be saved as you are. Namo Amida Butsu is the path of going beyond birth and death. This is the teaching of Amida Buddha.”
“When you take a bath, you enter with the dirtiest part of the body: your feet. In exactly the same way, you enter the Vow with all your defilements. The nembutsu enters your body through the dirtiest part of your body – the bottom of your feet. Amida does not say you must come with your body cleansed, but that you should come with the body that is doomed to the six realms of transmigration. The Buddha himself comes to you begging you to let him save you. As my teacher, Professor Ikeyama, has expressed it, the Buddha says, bowing to you, “I beg you, please come soon”. Even if you are a defiled being, you will be saved as you are. Namo Amida Butsu is the path of going beyond birth and death. This is the teaching of Amida Buddha.”
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ReplyDeleteand secondly, a "little" reading for the readers of this beautiful blog:
The Last Letter from RENNYO SHÖNIN'S' OFUMI (fascicle V )
22. On the import of our Tradition's Teaching
Those who seek to know thoroughly the meaning of our tradition's teaching and be bornin the land of Utmost Bliss must first of all know about Other-Power faith.
What is the essential point of Other-Power faith ? it is the provision by which wretched foolish beings like ourselves go readily to the Pure Land.
In what way does Other-Power faith find expression? We simply entrust ourselves exclusively to Amida Tathâgata, single heartedly and steadfastly; and with the awakening on the one-thought moment in wich we realise that Amida saves us, Amida Tathâgata unfailingly send forth his embracing light and keeps us safe within this light as long as we are in this world (sahâ).It is precisely in this state that our birth is assured.
Thus "namu-amida-butsu" expresses the attaining of Other-Power faith.We must bear in mind that this faith is the source of "namu-amida-butsu".Then, because we receive this one Other-Power faith,there is no doubt at all that we will be born readily in the land of utmost bliss. How incomparable is amaida Tathâgata's Primal Vow!
How are to respond to this gracious benevolence of Amida?
Simply by saying "Namu-amida-butsu",sleeping or waking,we respond to Amida Tathâgata's benevolence.
With that mind, then, do we say "Namu-amida-butsu"?
Think of it as the rejoicing mind that realizes how gracious and wonderful it is that Amida Tathâgata saves us.
Respectfully.
Shônyo, disciple of Sâkyamuni
(written seal)
Vincent (from French Guiana)
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