The Praises of Amida: Seven Buddhist SermonsKyōbunkwan, 1907 - 140 pages |
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Amida beautiful body brothers and sisters Buddha Buddhism burning house Cassia Christ Christian Citadel City of Light comes conscience darkness deceit defiled Divine Name dolls dream duty dwell Echizen evil Faith Father fear feeling flames of suffering forget friends garments Gate give glory gratitude happiness Hōjō Holy Name Honen Shonin honest honesty and uprightness Hotoke human iran Japan journey kalpas Kyoto labour leave live look means meditate Mercy mind Misery Nara Nehrodoff Nestorian never Nicholas II Nyorai once ourselves pain Paradise parents past peace poor portunism prison prison-house Pure Land religion remorse Rennyo rest reverence road Sacred Name Sakyamuni salvation samurai sendan shadows Shinran Shōnin Siberia sins sorrow Spirit stand strength Tathāgata teachings tell tence things thought three worlds trouble true trust truth upright heart Vaidehi virtue vision whole words worship
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Page 6 - First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the world. Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind. Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the elect people of God.
Page 63 - On the surface, foam and roar, Restless heave and passionate dash, Shingle rattle along the shore, Gathering boom and thundering crash. Under the surface, soft green light, A hush of peace and an endless calm, Winds and waves, from a choral height, Falling sweet as a far-off psalm.
Page 64 - On the surface, lilies white, A painted skiff with a singing crew, Sky-reflections soft and bright, Tremulous crimson, gold and blue. Under the surface, life in death, Slimy tangle and oozy moans, Creeping things with watery breath, Blackening roots and whitening bones. On the surface, a shining reach, A crystal couch for the moonbeams' rest, Starry ripples along the beach, Sunset songs from the breezy west.
Page 63 - Shingle rattle along the shore, Gathering boom and thundering crash. Under the surface, soft green light, A hush of peace and an endless calm, Winds and waves, from a choral height, Falling sweet as a far-off psalm. On the surface, swell and swirl, Tossing weed and drifting waif, Broken spars that the mad waves whirl, Where wreck-watching rocks they chafe.
Page 19 - ... stands revealed in the midst of a world of Shadow and Vision, and it alone is neither Shadow nor Vision. It is revealed in the World, but it belongs not to this world. It is Light. It is the Way. It is Life. It is Power. This name alone has come down from Heaven, the Absolute and Invisible, to Earth, the Finite and the Visible. It alone is the rope which can draw us out from the burning fire of pain, and land us safely in a place of pure and eternal bliss.
Page 18 - A JAPANESE BUDDHA How can we of ourselves forsake our sins, follow after virtue, and break through the flames of Suffering? It is impossible for us to put our trust in Learning or Philosophy, or in the great majority of religious systems, and if we cannot find some more certain means of salvation we must remain where we are, hopelessly surrounded by the roaring flames of Suffering that has no end.
Page 1 - Übersetzung herausgegeben. (Tökyö, published by the Kyöbunkwan, und Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1907.) In der Einleitung bemerkt der Übersetzer: „As I read my translations of Rev. K. Tada's Sermons, I feel that they sound so very Christian in thought that a reader might almost be attempted to suppose that I had made them up for purposes of my own, and that they were not translations at all. The expenditure of a few Sen on the original book (its name is Shüdö Kö\va, and it is published by...
Page 18 - But what is that glad sound ? It is the name of the Buddha of Endless Light and Life, to whom we ascribe all glory. Surrounded by the flames of Suffering, above, below, and on every hand, we hear the Holy Name of the Buddha of Boundless Light and Life. Three thousand years in the past, three thousand...
Page 37 - Half-an inch of decayed wood, a sheet of old paper, a lump of clay, a block of metal, — anything will do so long as it is a symbolical representation, and prevents our forgetful hearts from becoming oblivious of the Tathagata. Before these symbols we bow down, and in doing so our hearts are lifted up in thought to the Great Heart of the Tathagata.
Page 18 - It is the name of the Buddha of Endless Light and Life, to whom we ascribe all glory. Surrounded by the flames of Suffering, above, below, and on every hand, we hear the Holy Name of the Buddha of Boundless Light and Life. Three thousand years in the past, three thousand years in the future, can make absolutely no difference to this Name. It has precisely the same virtue, whether in distant India or in near Japan.