✨ Don't waste this opportunity to progress on the path ✨

🪷 Spiritual wisdom from Honen Shonin (1133–1212) 🪷

💭 How are you putting the teachings into practice? 💭

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Honen Shonin (1133–1212)

What a waste it would be, then, to live vainly, without giving heed to the teachings or putting them into practice. To die without making the least spiritual progress, how shameful! — Honen Shonin (1133–1212)

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Jodo Shu Home Liturgy

Hello dear readers, I realized recently that after posting I home liturgy examples for Soto Zen, Rinzai Zen, and Tendai sect Buddhism, I had never posted about Jodo Shu sect home liturgy despite being a follower for many years. There are a couple reasons for this. #Buddhism #JodoShu #Chanting #Liturgy

http://nembutsu.cc/2025/08/24/jodo-shu-home-liturgy/

Looking Back on Twenty Years As A Buddhist

I didn't really become a Buddhist, as in explicitly taking refuge in the Three Treasures, until my 20's. When I met my future wife, she was raised Buddhist, and approached it very differently. I quickly realized that I had serious gaps in my understanding of Buddhism. Reading books about Buddhism, and being Buddhist in one's life are two different things. #Buddhism #JodoShu #Nembutsu

http://nembutsu.cc/2025/01/30/looking-back-on-twenty-years-as-a-buddhist/

Buddhist Quote for Today: Hōnen Shōnin (1133–1212)

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Buddhist Quote for Today: Hōnen Shōnin (1133–1212)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXDCEFtQ-M4

(The video format is different, which isn't agreeing with Mastodon; you'll have to click through to go to Youtube to watch!)

Daily dose of #dharma from one of my favorite teachers ever, Robina Courtin, a Gelug nun.

I started doing this yesterday, adding it to my morning chanting/yoga practice. I found it very powerful. It isn't easy for me to speak kindly to myself; I teared up the first time I tried. But the effect it had on my mind was profound, and this morning I found it easier to start.

As a #PureLand Buddhist, I rely on the compassion of #Amitabha / #Amida #Buddha. That concept is a whole other subject in itself, which will seem foreign if your understanding of #Buddhism is primarily from #Theravada sources versus #Mahayana. The basic idea is that I ask Amitabha for help with my practice, instead of it being something I cultivate within myself, off my own back.

Today I told myself that, among other things, if a Buddha can see good qualities in me and decides that I am deserving of his compassion, then it must be true that I am indeed worthy of kindness and respect. Who am I to assume that my perspective as an addled, ordinary being, is more accurate than that of an enlightened Buddha?

I had never framed this thought as such before. Thinking it through today felt like I had unlocked a deeper truth.

Namu Amida Butsu.  ☸️ 🌻

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#SilentSunday

Just finished my morning yoga. Here's the small travel altar I keep in the kitchen for incense offerings.

Pictured, left to right: Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Namu Amida Butsu.

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Who Dwells In This House?

I've been mulling over a certain quotation of Honen (法然, 1133–1212), the 12th century Buddhist monk credited with spreading the Pure Land tradition in Japan, and thus founder of movements such as Jodo-Shu and Jodo-Shinshu ... #buddhism #japan #jodoshu #honen

http://nembutsu.cc/2024/09/04/who-dwells-in-this-house/