Friday, July 5, 2013

Share Amida with others....

Share Amida with others...

Share your joy with others.

Share your love with others.

Share your compassion with others.

Share your enthusiasm of life with others.

Joy, love, compassion, enthusiasm of life...this is Amida within you...this is Namo Amida Butsu!  

You are the smile that Amida is smiling....

Be yourself....

You are embraced just as you are...

Amida is smiling...

Namo Amida Butsu!



















thank you,
Jishin



Wednesday, July 3, 2013

It is good to be home....

I have been away for a little over a month.  I visited my family and friends in Alaska.  I had very mixed emotions about going back to Alaska...the place I called home for most of my adult life (up until 4 years ago).  It was great to visit my mom, dad, granddaughter, sister, niece and nephew.  It was great to see Dharma friends, too!

My great Dharma journey began in Portland, Oregon many years ago (1994) then lead me back to Alaska and now I have come full circle back to Portland.

What is so very different now is not so much my physical address, but my awareness of where my home really is....my home is in the Nembutsu.

The Nembutsu is my only true home...my refuge, my safe place to bring all of my worries and joys.

Living in the Nembutsu has given me a sense of belonging, a sense of gratitude and a sense of being embraced by the greatest kindness I can ever imagine.

Namu Amida Butsu.....it is good to be home.

Namu Amida Butsu.....I am home.












thank you,
Jishin

Monday, July 1, 2013

fall into hell.....

"If you hear the Dharma as people usually do, you will fall into hell as people usually do."~ Zuiken


I hear the Dharma through my own cloud of foolish thoughts and ideas...how can I ever really hear the Dharma?  If it weren't for the fact that I get in the way of all the good the Dharma has to offer...I would be a better person....or would I?

Fact is, I am foolish, filled to the brim with ideas and thoughts that twist and turn my mind about what is right and wrong. 

Namu Amida Butsu is true and real and no thought or action that I place in front of Amida deters the working of Amida's Vow.  

I can not stop the working of Amida's Vow. (For this, I am grateful.)

You can not stop the working of Amida's Vow.  

If my day is "hellish" in nature, it is because my mind was restless and not hearing Amida's reminding call of Compassion.

Amida is always with me.

You and I my friend are never alone on the Nembutsu path.


Namu Amida Butsu.



Thank you,
Jishin
July 1, 2013
Portland, Oregon