Buddhism2
In Life there is suffering. This spurs on the unending search for universal truth and meaning. Jodo Shinsu is an answer to this search. The "practice" of Jodo Shinshu is the recitation of the Nembutsu with self-reflection. It involves hearing the call of Amida Buddha, the Buddha of Eternal Life and Infinite Light, Compassion and Wisdom, within others' or ours recitation of the Name. Which calls us to raise our spiritual perspectives beyond immediate ego interests to universal concerns for compassion, justice in the human community and concern for the life of nature. The hole of life is Nembutsu. A life lived in awareness, that we ourselves are the expressions, the manifestations, of interdependence and compassion and dedicated to bringing that reality to others as we have experienced it.The Nembutsu is a spiritual shrine, which can be transported and reverenced wherever one may be. Time or space does not bind religious practice. Rather, from within the deep recesses of one's spirit the call of Amida Buddha can be heard, bringing our attention back to the very source of life itself, and evidencing its pr
Dharmakara successfully fulfilled his Great Vow, and became Amida Buddha. To self-realize is the incomparable awakening of self. Those who awaken first and advance the farthest on the path to enlightenment are the teachers. Right Effort is to destroy all evil states of mind that has already arisen. Right Living is to abstain from all evil methods of livelihood. The Quality of Right View is to aspire to attain realization of perfect wisdom, the ultimate true permanent reality. As one attains the higher states of mind, consciousness, the true nature of how things really are can be seen clearly, both intuitively and with supreme effort, by direct super-knowledge, true reality unfolding, and self enlightenment of self by self. ) Dharmakara Bodhisattva felt great compassion for those of us unable to fulfill the practices necessary to achieve enlightenment on our own. However, in comparison to the other creatures, we are full of authority and pompous presumption. He never became tired, in spite of long exertion. The last of the Noble Truths (the Noble Eight fold Path), contains a prescription for the relief of our unhappiness and for our eventual release once and for all from the painful and wearisome cycle of birth and death (samsara) to which through our own ignorance (avijja) of the Four Noble Truths we have been bound for countless aeons. But there are infinite numbers and boundless ways of understanding and practicing Buddhism. This in turn will lead us to a harmonious and happy co-existence wit others. Thus we are capable of changing ourselves, even to the extent of changing the world, or community around them. These are described in inspirational poetic form in The Threefold Lotus Sutra (published by Kosei).
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