Yokawa Hogo | Master Genshin It is a cause of great happiness that, among all living beings, we have escaped from the 3 lower realms and have been born human. Though one's station in life may be low, it is not worse than animal existence; though poverty stricken, it is not like the land of the hungry ghosts; though we experience pain in our hearts,

17 Poems of Master Hōnen. If from Buddha Amida My heart its col'ring gains, It will be like the beauteous boughs In autumn's crimson stains. Above the thatch of my mountain home The white clouds morning and evening hover. Ah! When shall the hour of that day come That the Birth in Amida's Pure Land purple me shall cover? Ten times Amida's Name shall pass

One-Page Testament | Hōnen Shonin (Dictated 1212 C.E.) "The method of final salvation that I have propounded is neither a sort of meditation, such as has been practiced by many scholars in China and Japan, nor is it a repetition of the Buddha's name by those who have studied and understood the deep meaning of it. It is nothing but the mere repetition of the