Dear friends,
me as more than twenty years, came across the Buddha's teaching, it was as you would have a factual report submitted about life. From beginning to end, I felt that the Buddha was someone who had the "insight" gained real and the methods then knew we we, by this view may come closer. In order to give
truth be told, it took a while to get to know the basic teachings of the sublime and at times it was quite difficult to understand all this. More nothing less, it was feasible and soon I was in able to capture the relationships theoretically. I could have explained to each individual situation and I was honestly trying to apply the learned methods.
Unfortunately my time here could not be so helpful.
If there were small, really small insights, so I had the feeling that with each mini gained insight, all the rest was even more difficult.
The four noble truths, the eightfold path
The five precepts (Silas)
The law of cause and effect (karma),
The conditional origin of all phenomena of existence
The three factors - dissatisfaction, impermanence and insubstantiality
All this was so clear and yet so difficult.
Everyone knows that the theory and the associated practice are often very far apart and that there is one thing to know the facts, but it's quite another to implement it. The implementation of the Buddha Dharma is not easy! We all know talented people, we can read and study, take examinations and obtain certificates and yet, it says nothing about our ability to practice.
Today you have taken refuge in front of the Sangha. Refuge in the Buddha, the manifestation of ultimate truth, refuge in the Dharma, the vessel, which carries us to the other shore and take refuge in the Sangha, the community those who are with us on the road.
These three jewels are the guarantor of our freedom from the never-ending life cycle. In the Jodo Shinshu
tradition for me I found the path of simplicity, the path of trust and leave yourself. A path that the Buddha's teaching contains completely and to me the burden of the Enlightened want to be in this life, decreases.
The Buddha Amida takes us from all troubles. His infinite wisdom and even more, His infinite compassion, and have had today for each of us, so that the truth of the doctrine is comprehensible for us. In his name "Namo Amida Butsu" are all the teachings of Sakyamuni mentioned, and by his vow force we avoid their own impotent implementation. His name and His power in our direction, he even calls us from the non-tangible thusness out and asks us to trust him.
Finally, I would have to draw a little picture.
It is as if we were caught in the fountain of life. Deep down we try to come out. However, realizing with all our knowledge and with all of our inability to know, we remain trapped in the dark. Amida Buddha is at the edge of the well, and hands us the rope of his name "Namo Amida Butsu." His fame fills the room of the well and we need to grab only his name. His not vows tangible force us pull it out, without a doubt, if we hold them firmly enough to the name and have the sincere wish to the well one to leave and for all.
in Gassho
Chisho
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