The Girl with the Nembutsu Tattoo
Who is she?
She is a daughter, a mother, and a grandmother.
She rides a vespa, drives a hybrid and loves new adventures.
She is an artist and a writer.
She loves a variety of music....Muse, Enya, Rage Against the Machine, Hendrix, Metallica, Dido..just to name a few.
She struggles with depression, yet manages to seek out the joys in life.
She is a Buddhist.
She is a Shin Buddhist. She is an ordained Shin Buddhist Priest.
She worked as a Hospice Chaplain. She found great comfort in comforting the dying.
She is not afraid to face death.
She is the girl with the Nembutsu tattoo.
Why did she do it for all to see?
Because people then ask her, "do you know what that means?"
Then she smiles......
For her it is literally a skin deep reminder of the words that saved her life....
Namu Amida Butsu
Thank you,
Jishin
It's nice to hear about a Shin Priest with a Nembutsu tattoo. I have one too. It is the parable of the white path or the river of fire and river of water. The Nembutsu is taken from a picture of a scroll by Shinran Shonin. It is over y heart.
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Lovely to find this wonderful place.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a picture of your tattoo. I am getting a Nembutsu tattoo myself and have never seen anyone having one.
NAB and gassho,
Senshin (Priest in the Tendai tradition)
Senshin, mine is basically my profile picture. The only difference is that I substituted the Nembutsu from this picture with one by Shinran Shonin.
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