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  Adrian Cirlea

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  How to help friends and family create a connection with Amida Buddha 264

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  • 29-10-2021 06:47

  Question: “Sometimes, one may be concerned about friends and family, because they have chosen different religious ways, or decided to believe in nothing at all. Of course, they also think that their path is the correct one and even if this can change during a lifetime, they might never have access to Buddhism. If we try to bring them on the path, they might block this from the beginning. It is just too early for them from the karmic point of view. How can we work discreetly on them, so that they develop interest in Buddhism, if not in this l

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  Mind precedes matter... 242

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  • 22-10-2021 11:01

  Question: Can matter evolve and become conscious? Answer: Matter itself without a conscience is not alive and life does not appear out of dead matter. Life has always existed, so it does not come suddenly into existence from matter. Life or conscience of a certain being takes a form (body) according to its karma, so we can say that conscience inhabits matter, not matter becomes conscious. Also, conscience precedes matt

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  Again on the idea that faith in Amida comes from Amida - very simple explanations 254

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  • 21-10-2021 06:00

  There are many who get stuck at the idea of shinjin (faith) coming from Amida Buddha, or being Amida's gift. However, this is a very simple thing, and you should understand it in a simple way, so that it may not become an obstacle. First of all, shinjin or simple faith in Amida is like when you do not know how to fix your car and you trust John who is a mechanic to fix it for you. In our case, you cannot attain Buddhahood by yo

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  How can one know that he received shinjin (faith) if he has no access to a temple or priest? 284

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  • 15-10-2021 07:00

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  On those who are not satisfied with Nembutsu only... 273

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  • 14-10-2021 10:45

    Shinran Shonin said: "Those who, it appears, will never attain Enlightenment All attack the practice of solely saying the Name. The mark of destroying the teaching of sudden attainment...

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  On a teacher abandoning the Primal Vow... 258

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  • 07-10-2021 22:26

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  Members of Amidaji - Shaku Hojun (Russia)... 261

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  • 03-10-2021 11:49

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  Amida Buddha is our strength... 243

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  • 01-10-2021 10:09

  Amida Buddha is our strength. No matter the outer or inner obstacles that appear in our lives, we should not fall prey to desperation because Amida Buddha is on our side. Dear friends, please follow this heart advice!Whatever disturbing emotions and fears appear in your mind-stream due to your ignorance, attachments and past karma, just ignore them, let them come and dissolve

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  Against the idea that the Pure Land is "here and now" 270

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  • 30-09-2021 08:39

  I have always wondered how can one say that the “Pure Land is here and now” or in “the mind” if he cannot actually manifest, here and now, the qualities of the Pure Land? Indeed, how can one be in the Pure Land, but continue to be impure in one’s mind and still unenlightened? This is clear evidence that such views do not belong to the Dharma Gate of the Pure Land, or to the simple faith oriented teaching of the Jodo Shinshu school.   In the Larger Sutra it is said:

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  Don’t use formless Dharmakaya to deny the transcendent manifestation of Amida Buddha 282

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  • 24-09-2021 11:36

  Many nowadays false teachers who are slandering the right Dharma, often use the formless Dharmakaya (Dharmakaya of Dharma-nature) which is the Buddha nature of all beings and of Buddhas themselves, as an excuse and argument to reduce all transcendent manifestations (Dharmakaya of

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  Question: What does it mean to seek to be born in the Pure Land through a false, deceitful and poisoned good? 282

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  • 17-09-2021 18:21

  This was a question asked at one of our sangha meetings Answer: To seek to be born in the Pure Land through a false, deceitful and poisoned good means to aspire to be born in the Pure Land through transferring one’s personal merits. Shinran said that personal merits are always mixed with the poison of ego, ignorance and attachments, so he considered that we do not actually have genuine merits. In relation with this, we should remember the story of the meeting between Maste

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  Only the Buddha knows what is good and evil and we should humbly accept what He said 266

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  • 09-09-2021 17:18

  Question: In the Postscript of Tannisho it is said: “In truth, myself and others discuss only good and evil, leaving Amida’s benevolence out of consideration. Among Master Shinran’s words were: ‘I know nothing at all of good or evil. For if I could know thoroughly, as Amida Tathagata knows, that an act was good, then I would know good. If I could know thoroughly, as the Tathagata knows, that an act was evil, then I would know evil. But with a foolish being full of blind passions, in this flee

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  Is Amida Buddha a real person or a symbol/metaphor? 273

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  • 09-09-2021 15:00

  the altar of Amidaji temple - fragment from a letter to a friend -  Question: Is Amida a symbol or metaphor for Wisdom and Compassion? Some scholars nowadays support this idea. Answer: Those scholars are wrong. Amida Buddha is

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  Members of Amidaji - Shaku Kishin (Germany)... 303

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  • 08-09-2021 12:57

    Click here to return to the spiritual biographies of Amidaji members My Dharma name is Kishin („The one who returns to the source“) and I was born 1970 in Germany, close to the City of Düsseldorf. My spiritual path is not unusual for people, starting with this journey in young years. With a lot of enthusiasm I tried to discover the phi

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  Why I sometimes use harsh language against proponents of wrong views 367

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  • 08-09-2021 12:45

  Japanse temple guardian in fierce form Some suggested that even if I speak the truth I should say it in a moderate way. However, in a world filled with so much ambiguity, relativity of values, secularism and various wrong views I think that strong voices are very much needed. There are many priests and religious organizations nowadays that nobody knows what they actually

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