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SUCCESSION OF JODO SHINSHU TRADITION

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Editorial for PLN 22

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. DITORIAL FOR PLN 22. The organisers master plan for ESC17: Be ready to change plans at short notice! The 17th European Shin Buddhist Conference took place in Southampton here in the UK 1st - 4th September and with 78 attendees and 20 speakers it was a great success. We set the bar high and cleared it! Sure, there were a few instances of 'could do better' but all in all it went very well and more or less according to plan. By "a dese...

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Ananda's Shinjin

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. That we are born in the Pure Land. In this sense Ananda is born for Amida as he is born in Amida's world, which also marks the fulfillment of Amida's vow. Since Amida vows not to become a Buddha before his vows are fulfilled, the fulfillment of the vow through Ananda's wish (and its granting) represents the birth of Amida as a Buddha. This is Inagaki Hisao's translation to the 98th line in the Shoshinge (Kyo ki ichi nen so o go).

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Suffering. Steve Lane PLN23

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. What do Shin Buddhists do when a loved one is suffering? What do we do at the loss of a baby? There seem to be no prayers for these in Shin Buddhism. There seems to be no theoretical space for such prayers. Shinran wouldn't even say a nembutsu for his dead parents (Tannisho, Chapter 5). When someone is suffering what can we offer as a Buddhist response? Do we give them a lecture on the Four Noble Truths?

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Obituary to Ganshin Rock

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. BITUARY TO THE R. Reverend Ganshin Emmanuel Rock, born the only son of Mr Nathan Rock and his wife, Rebecca, on 6 July 1926, passed away at the age of eighty-eight on 1st September 2014. Returning to the UK in 1986, Ganshin san began teaching Buddhism at his private residence in Romsey, where he had enshrined a statue of Yakushi Nyorai, the Medicine Buddha, that had come into his possession forty years previously. In later years...

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Suffering. Steve Lane PLN23

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. What do Shin Buddhists do when a loved one is suffering? What do we do at the loss of a baby? There seem to be no prayers for these in Shin Buddhism. There seems to be no theoretical space for such prayers. Shinran wouldn't even say a nembutsu for his dead parents (Tannisho, Chapter 5). When someone is suffering what can we offer as a Buddhist response? Do we give them a lecture on the Four Noble Truths?

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Existence and Reality and the Mystery of the Nembutsu.

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. We often speak about the heart. We say a friend is brokenhearted, or we speak of our heartfelt thanks. And we are not talking about the muscle beating within our chest. It refers to that other heart, the emotional heart. But where is it?

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I Bite My Nails. Steve Lane

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. Being successful in our efforts to be good can also put us in the wrong. We can become proud of our achievements, even self-righteous. But then, beating ourselves up about that, or beating ourselves up about how bad we are - both are wrong. It makes one want to give up - and yes, that's wrong too. It's a Catch 22.

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I Bite My Nails. Steve Lane

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. Being successful in our efforts to be good can also put us in the wrong. We can become proud of our achievements, even self-righteous. But then, beating ourselves up about that, or beating ourselves up about how bad we are - both are wrong. It makes one want to give up - and yes, that's wrong too. It's a Catch 22.

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En Mei Juku IMAGE

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Subscribe to PLN securly through the www.chomonhouse.org Pay Point page. Click/tap on image below (published inside back cover PLN24) for accompanying article A short talk given. By Rev Daichi Gary Robinson at the Chomon House Lantern Festival Eza 5th March 2015.