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	Honen Shonin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hōnen was said to recite the nembutsu thousands of times a day in his later years.
		Even if those who believe in the nembutsu deeply study all the teachings which Shakyamuni taught during his life, they should not put on any airs and should practice the nembutsu with the sincerity of those untrained followers ignorant of Buddhist doctrines.
		In addition it is considered that the nembutsu should be said as much as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honen_Shonin (1053 words)

	The Collected Works of Shinran Letters A Collection of Letters 3
		To begin, you state that with one utterance of the nembutsu the cause of birth is fulfilled.
		Since one is directing the nembutsu to the sentient beings of the ten quarters, it is an error to think that saying it twice or three times is bad for one's attainment of birth.
		I have heard that nembutsu of "thought" and "no-thought" is being discussed among people of the nembutsu throughout the province of Hitachi, and I have already stated that this is an error.
	www.shinranworks.com /letters/collection3.htm (479 words)

	Chapter 18
		The existential nature of the Nembutsu as a spontaneous and natural expression of gratitude arising in one's heart and mind is the essence of Shinshu.
		Nembutsu has become not the vehicle for salvation, but the spontaneous signal that one has realized through Amida's Vow that he is already saved.
		The lifelong recitation of Nembutsu, as practiced by Shin Buddhists, is no longer a practice for acquiring merit, or transferring merit, but is instead an expression of thanksgiving, of appreciation for all that the Vow means in each person's life.
	www.shindharmanet.com /course/chapter18.htm (2105 words)

	ONLY NEMBUTSU IS REAL
		For Honen, this was senjaku - nembutsu, the nembutsu as the "selected" practice of one's life, and so it became for Shinran.
		For me, there was a period in which I both rejected and, at the same time, was drawn to the Nembutsu that had come from my mother's mouth as she lay dying.
		Yet through this nembutsu that had been my mother's dying utterance, I came closer to the Dharma and was able to learn the teachings.
	web.mit.edu /stclair/www/22.html (783 words)

	Writings - Japanese Pure Land Buddhism
		Nembutsu is literally "to think of the Buddha" and is equivalent to Namuamidabutsu in practice.
		What I intend to say is that the nembutsu is not difficult to perform for either man or woman, whether highborn or lowborn, whether walking or staying, sitting or lying, and no matter when, where and under what kind of karmic condition.
		As mentioned before, the word nembutsu originally means 'to think of the Buddha.' Regarding the nembutsu, Shantao says there are five right ways: (1) reciting the Pure Land sutras; (2) meditation on Amida Buddha and his Land; (3) paying reverence to Amida; (4) pronouncing Amida's Name; (5) praising and making offerings.
	www.threewheels.org.uk /writings_section_files/writings_talks_files/talks_12.htm (4316 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Jodo Shinshu (japanese Buddhism)
		Thus, this Nembutsu is the embodiment of purity, truth, goodness, beauty, wisdom and peace; in other words it embodies all the highest values and qualities both conceivable and inconceivable, which Amida was able to perfect in His infinitely long period of meditation and practice.
		It was Shinran's view that to practice the nembutsu as a means of gaining reward was to fall prey to the same limitations that afflicted the traditional 'self-power' schools which advocated taxing meditation, difficult austerities and strict adherence to the monastic precepts.
		To simply recite the nembutsu with no other motive than to attain blissful entry into Nirvana for oneself is doomed to failure because the incentive then appears to be solely one of self-gain uninformed by either gratitude to the Buddha or compassion for one's suffering fellow beings.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3144 (12393 words)

	Tannisho
		To Shinran (1173-1262) the teaching of Other-Power Nembutsu is the natural and consequent outcome of the teachings of the historical Buddha Gautama, of the various Mahayana teachers and in particular of the Seven Patriarchs of the Pure Land School, among whom he counts the Indian philosophers Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu.
		The realization of this "mystical" state is expressed in the Nembutsu NAMU AMIDA BUTSU, which is not a mantra, but a ‘cry’ from the inner depths of beings that is evoked through Amida’s Other-Power as the physical, vocal expression of their "true and real" essence.
		Saying the nembutsu, especially after hearing the myogo, is not a petitioning, no meditation formula, not a ‘good work’ through which man can be liberated, but an expression of gratitude for the salvation offered by the Buddha of Infinite Light and Life.
	www.akshin.net /Tannisho.htm (3984 words)

	Библиотека Luksian key \| Tannisho-Shin Buddhist Text. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That is, when people, in saying the nembutsu, talk about true entrusting among themselves or try to explain it to others, they even ascribe words to Shinran never spoken by him in order to silence people or stop further inquiry.
		NEMBUTSU In the Tannisho the term "nembutsu" is used in three ways: as a synonym for the Name (myo go), the fundamental reality; as the saying of the Name, Namu-amida-butsu; and as true entrusting, the working of the Name appearing in one's life.
		Nembutsu: Various connotations are found in this term: (1) Namu-amida-butsu, as the ultimate reality or Name (myogo) for man, (2) the saying or uttering of the Name as the expression of that reality in man, and (3) the sole cause of enlightenment for a foolish being.
	lib.luksian.com /texte/phil_rel/089 (12945 words)

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		The nembutsu has a high degree of efficiency, not because of the amassment of karmic merit that its practice would entail, but because it is founded on the Original Vow and thus on emptiness which is the true nature of things.
		To Shinran, the nembutsu is exclusively Amida’s working in us; Amida is the “doer”, the true sayer of nembutsu, where Shan-tao and Honen maintain that the act of saying the nembutsu is that of the practicer.
		Nembutsu is aroused in the abysmal depths of the human heart and mind and is uttered by Amida itself.
	www.akshin.net /pureland/pl-purelandbuddhism-parttwo.htm (4133 words)

	amidabuddha.org - Pure Land Buddhism and South Florida Buddhist Resources
		[The Nembutsu that I teach] is not the contemplative Nembutsu expounded by many learned masters of China and Japan, nor is it the recitative Nembutsu practiced with full understanding of the meaning of "nen" that becomes clear from study.
		Nembutsu means concentration on the Buddha and his virtues, or recitation of the Buddha's name.
		The practice of Nembutsu assures rebirth within the Pure Land, and rebirth within the Pure Land allows one to attain enlightenment with ease.
	www.amidabuddha.org (553 words)

	The Nembutsu as Great Practice
		In fact, the way of the nembutsu constitutes the entire foundation of this path such that to fail to understand the meaning of this concept is to fail to understand the entire raison d'etre of the largest school of Buddhism in Japan.
		According to Professor Inagaki, it referred to 'the act of devotion to, worship, praise and contemplation of the Buddha, and is meant to control one's evil passions and lead one to rebirth in the heavenly realm and finally to Nirvana.'[2].
		The implication is that the nembutsu is the practice of the Buddha, not that of sentient beings which is why, precisely, its efficacy is assured.
	nembutsu.info /nemgtprac2.htm (5018 words)

	TABLE OF CONTENTS I What is Shin? 1 II What Is Shinjin. 6 III Buddhist Wisdom. 10 IV Great
		The "Nembutsu only" practice was that of reliance on salvation (enlightenment) through "other power" acknowledged by the recitation of Namu Amida Butsu, a homage to the name of Amida, signifying trust in the Buddha whose Vow was to save all beings everywhere at all times.
		To take off at this starting point, to encounter the nembutsu teaching in one's life, means that one meets the per son who manifests the teaching in his or her own life.
		My saying of the nembutsu is not merely my saying-it is at the same time Amidas Calling to me! Thus, Amida is not the object I am calling but the subject who thinks of and calls me. This is an analysis still within the realm of objective rational explanation.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys1/budworld.htm (16569 words)

	The Nembutsu: Namu Amida Butsu
		The Nembutsu or mantra of Amida: "namu amida butsu" is used widely in Japanese Buddhism and is of core significance in Jodoshu (Pure Land sect) Buddhism.
		The Nembutsu is said to generate great merit and great compassion, and to produce untold benefits including the sharpening one's powers of concentration.
		It is said that chanting the Nembutsu at the time of ones own death is the simplest method of ensuring rebirth in the Western Pure Land - the 'heaven' or spiritual domain of Amida Butsu.
	www.geocities.com /fascin8or/jsp_nembutsu.htm (224 words)

	Key
		The word "nembutsu" has several meanings in the long history of Buddhism depending on the definition of the word "nen." "Nen" can mean meditating or thinking or pronouncing.
		Therefore, "nembutsu" can refer to meditating on the special features of the Buddha image, holding to the thought of the Buddha, and pronouncing the name of the Buddha.
		Shinran (1173-1262) was a disciple of Honen and is considered the founder of Jodo Shinshu which is known in the West as Shin (Buddhist) Tradition or the "True Pure Land Tradition." Shinran whose childhood name was Matsuwakamaru was born near Kyotoas the eldest son of Hino Arinori.
	www.aloha.net /~horaku/key.html (2156 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Honen took nembutsu worship without corporality to be insufficient probably because applying his mind and body to chanting endowed him with a fertile imagination.
		Honen's answer to the impossible question of the relationship between "theory and practice" namely, his injunction to choose neither theory nor practice, to choose instead the "and" in between that borders on the "but"-should be named "wisdom" as opposed to "intelligence." Meanwhile, the basis of Shinran's worship was acute, philosophical introspection.
		For the pellucid thinker who chopped up his own self-contradictions with the blade of logic, it was exigent to understand nembutsu not in its practical function but as a symbolic moment of the establishment of faith.
	www.americanbuddhist.org /book_discussion/excerpts/degeneration_of_death.html (2532 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Shinran And Jodoshinshu"
		This practice, known as 'nien-fo' in Chinese, 'buddha-anusmriti' in Sanskrit and 'nembutsu' in Japanese, consists in repeating the six-character formula: na-mo-o-mi-t'o-fo in Chinese or namu amida butsu in Japanese.
		More importantly, in the 18th Vow, which promises salvation of all beings, the Nembutsu is presented, along with deep faith, as the essential practice leading to birth in the Pure Land.
		His Nembutsu teaching spread far and wide, and was inherited by Honen (1133-1212) of Japan, who founded the Jodo sect based on the teaching that the exclusive practice of the Nembutsu alone is the sufficient cause for birth in the Pure Land.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=8399 (5140 words)

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		Shinran, convinced that the teaching of birth through nembutsu was the only way for the foolish and ignorant being like him to attain buddhahood, abandoned the practices on Mt. Hiei at the age of twenty-nine.
		The nembutsu teaching, insisting that regardless of ones' rank and position, both the good and the evil were all saved by saying nembutsu, rapidly spread among the ordinary people, who were obliged to live in the lowest level of society.
		The nembutsu teaching was taught especially for the sake of ordinary people and ignorant, sometime evil people, thus this kind of person becomes the primary focus of salvation.
	www.homestead.com /oxnardbt/files/Shinran.htm (2093 words)

	Honen
		As to the position of women (Document 6), Honen assured them of their eventual salvation by taking the form of men, which was a step forward, but still showed the bias of a male-dominated society.
		And the reason we choose the nembutsu out of all the other forms of religious discipline is because it is the one prescribed in the Original Vow of that Buddha.
		There is nothing better than the practice of the nembutsu to get safely out of this three-fold world and be born into the Land of Perfect Bliss.
	www.sp.uconn.edu /~gwang/id115.htm (2562 words)

	Gose Monogatari
		These were nembutsu followers from the capital's nine sectors and those seeking the life hereafter from the five states' seven highways.
		Those ordinary persons who do the nembutsu realizing the truth about themselves [as ordinary] are acting with a heart that violates Amida's Original Vow, for they earnestly count on their self-power to get things done.
		If you come to this understanding, you realize that whoever does the nembutsu will be Born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss, that even an unlearned person who sets their mind to doing the nembutsu will come to be equipped with the Three Hearts for Birth in the Pure Land.
	www.shindharmanet.com /writings/gosem.htm (2868 words)

	BIROCO.COM ~ Nembutsu
		The nembutsu comes to my lips like a forgotten bag of precious coins buried in the sand that aimless fingers digging holes suddenly come upon.
		This is why the nembutsu appeals to me as a substitute for thoughts and why I have allowed it to blot out a portion of my day every day for quite a few years.
		Sometimes they seem to join in with the rhythm of the nembutsu and the six syllables seem something all of nature knows, but it is a mystery how it knows it.
	www.biroco.com /nembutsu.htm (639 words)

	Lifestyle of the Nembutsu Practicioner
		The Nembutsu, at that time, must have brought a unique lifestyle for the practitioners, which was different from the ordinary way of living.
		What is important to know is that the practitioners at that time had completely converted their ordinary way of thinking and had awakened to the dignity of life through the teachings, and therefore, these things happened.
		Manshi Kiyozawa interpreted "Shinjin" as "Spiritualism." It is important for the Nembutsu practitioner to have historical consciousness and social responsibility.
	www.livingdharma.org /Living.Dharma.Articles/LifeOfNembutsu-Tamamitsu.html (5249 words)

	Nembutsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mahayana teaching of 'non-ego,' 'emptiness' and 'dependant origination' are based on the realization that in the absolute reality there is no such dualities and confrontations.
		In the Nembutsu there are no such confrontations as enemy and friend, men and women, rich and poor, good and evil, and even Amida and myself.
		Before I begin this month's article, may I express my feelings of condolence to all those who were affected by the terrible acts of terrorism that occurred in the States on September 11th, 2001.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /pureland/nembutsu.htm (671 words)

	Family Dharma Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shinran was not the first to teach nembutsu, but he put primary emphasis on nembutsu making it the primary practice of Shin Buddhism.
		Shinran also taught that Nembutsu is a manifestation of Shinjin - a state free of the world's dichotomy.
		He believed that one should not chant nembutsu simply to gain enlightenment for oneself.
	www.pulelehuadesign.com /familydharma/shin.htm (424 words)

	Shinran Page
		The Nembutsu is also exclusively recommended in the Amida Sutra, the shortest of the three Pure Land scriptures, where it is stated that by repeating the Name of Amida Buddha with singleness of heart for one to seven days, one can attain birth in the Pure Land.
		Shinran, the founder of Shin, was born in Kyoto in 1173.
		When Honen's Nembutsu teaching invited the jealousy and criticism from the traditional sects and was finally persecuted, he and his leading disciples were exiled.
	www.aumcreations.com /cosmicconnections/buddhism/shinran.htm (5034 words)

	The Collected Works of Shinran Shorter Works Gutoku's Notes 2
		In accord with the [Contemplation] Sutra, to entrust oneself deeply [to the practice of the nembutsu].
		Nembutsu of sundry practice with a nonmeditative mind.
		Know that meditative and nonmeditative nembutsu of all the Buddhas is single praxis within sundry practice.
	www.shinranworks.com /shorterworks/gutoku2.htm (4157 words)

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		He traced his nembutsu lineage on from Sakyamuni to the great Indian masters Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu, then on through the writings of the Chinese masters Tao Ch'o, T'an Luan, and Shan Tao to the Japanese Pureland master Genshin to Shinran's own beloved 'nembutsu only' teacher, Honen.
		Shinran's account of his nembutsu way, and his indebtedness to the writings of these great teachers of the past, is powerfully presented in his Shoshinge, Hymn of the True Nembutsu, which is a bridge between his chapters on Shin (entrusting) and Sho (enlightenment) in his six chapter masterpiece Kyo-Gyo-Shin-Sho.
		However, he makes clear to us a distinction Between the shallowness of self-power nembutsu, Which leads only to the borders of the Pure Land, Leaving one at a way station, With the depth of the true nembutsu That assures is entry into the heart of Amida's realm.
	www.aloha.net /~rtbloom/shinran/rtabrah/1sutra.txt (5272 words)

	The message for my children - Myoshu Sensei Agnes Jedrzejewska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is some connection between my feelings for you and Polish culture we were born in; the culture which especially treasure the offsprings as a sign of survival and future.
		Nembutsu is a form Buddha took (Sambhogakaya) to be in touch with us, so we can rely on Buddha.
		When Tariki Nembutsu is born in your mind, from that moment on, you are perfectly safe, you are getting a peace of mind, a freedom from any real dilemma, you are not touchable by samsara anymore.
	jodoshinshu.republika.pl /jodoe/dharma/messagestomy.html (2123 words)

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