✨ For the benefit of all ✨

🪷 Devotional wisdom from Ippen Shonin (1239–1289) 🪷

💛 What changes when concern for others becomes the path? 💛

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Hiding our Buddha-nature

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ippen Shonin (1239–1289) 🪷

✨ There, in a dream, I received a divine message, / Which has guided me for the rest of my life. / I do not seek my own refuge in the afterlife, / But my concern is to benefit others universally. — Ippen Shonin (1239–1289) ✨

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - A Ticking Clock

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Taking Refuge from the Wind

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✨ Even then... ✨

🪷 Tender wisdom from Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

💛 What is quietly blooming, even now? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

✨ A world of grief and pain: / Flowers bloom; / Even then... — Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) ✨

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Growing Grass

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The Call of Amida and Buddhist Historiography

This post looks at the writings of Honen, and through various earlier Chinese-Buddhist sources to explore the "Path of the Sages" versus the "Path of the Pure Land". #Buddhism #PureLand #Amida #Nembutsu

http://nembutsu.cc/2026/04/23/the-call-of-amida-and-buddhist-historiography/