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Related articles mentioned in the video: The merit transference from Amida Buddha to those who entrust to Him - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-transference-of-merit-from-amida.html Birth in the borderland of the Pure Land - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2018/05/birth-in-borderland-of-pure-land.html The eight elements of Faith (short version) - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/03/amida-dharma-fasicle-5-eight-elements.html The eight elements of faith (longer version) - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2016/10/some-elements-of-genuine-faith-shinjin.html The eight precepts of Faith - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/03/amida-dharma-6-eight-precepts-of-faith.html In relation with those who deny the existence of Amida Buddha and His Pure Land (those who slander the Dharma) please read "The so-called “exclusion” in the Primal Vow: 'excluded are those who commit the five grave offenses and those who slander the right Dharma.'" Here the actual exclusion which is in fact, a self-exclusion, is to slander the right Dharma - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2007/10/exclusion-in-eighteenth-vow.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.htmlIf you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel.

Related article: "The influence of past karma and the impossibility of becoming a Buddha in this life" - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2012/06/influence-of-past-karma-and.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.htmlIf you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel.

If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.htmlIf you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel.

Related article: "Faith in Amida Buddha is not the creation of our minds" - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2018/05/faith-in-amida-buddha-is-not-creation.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

The 10th benefit in this life of those who have faith in Amida Buddha is to enter the stage of the truly settled or those assured of attaining Buddhahood in the Pure Land. Click here to listen to my explanations of this important doctrine - https://youtu.be/pJZk7mbzlBQ Click here to go to the playlist where I explain all the ten benefits - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNT5Z5QvcOlmPGJ8Z0sGup7 Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

ntroduction by Gansen John Welch, I wrote this new poem to thank and honour my teachers Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea and Paul Roberts as well as our Amida Dharma Masters, Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tan-Luan, Daochuo, Shandao, Genshin, Honen,Shinran and Rennyo without whom I could not have found and understood (in my case, to some small extent) Amida Dharma and my utter helplessness, trapped in the endless suffering of samsara. Never forget these wise words from Tannisho by Yuienbo: “As I humbly reflect on the past [when the late master Shinran was alive] and the present in my foolish mind, I can not but lament the divergences from the true shinjin that he conveyed by speaking to us directly, and I fear there are doubts and confusions in the way followers receive and transmit the teaching. For how is entrance into the single gate of easy practice possible unless we happily come to rely on a true teacher whom conditions bring us to encounter? Let there be not the slightest distortion of the teaching of Other Power with words of an understanding based on personal views.” My hope is that readers and listeners will find that certain words, phrases, ideas and concepts in this poem resonate with their past and present experience and prove to be helpful and meaningful in increasing their understanding of this profound and precious Amida Dharma. As Master Rennyo wrote: “There will also be those who are lacking in faith (fushinjin). This is an extremely serious matter. For unless there is a decisive settling of faith, the birth that is to come in the fulfilled land is uncertain. Therefore, those whose faith is lacking (fushin)should in all haste attain the decisive mind.The human realm is a place of uncertainty. The Land of utmost bliss is one of eternity. Hence we should not make our abode in the uncertain human realm, but rather aspire to [birth in] the eternal Land of Utmost Bliss. In our tradition, therefore, the matter of faith is placed before all else; unless we are fully aware of the reason for this, everything is meaningless. We must promptly undergo a decisive settling of faith (anjin) and aspire to birth in the Pure Land.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 11: On the Anniversary of Master Shinran’s Death) “There is, then, no anxiety over becoming a Buddha. How incomparable is the all-surpassing Primal Vow! And how gracious Amida Tathagata’s light! Without encountering the [receptive] condition of this light, there can be no cure at all for the fearful sickness of ignorance and karma-hindrance, which has been ours from the beginningless past. Prompted by the condition of this light, and with the ripening of good from the past, we assuredly attain other-power faith now. It is immediately clear, however, that this is faith granted by Amida Tathagata. Hence we know now, beyond question, that this is not faith generated by the practitioner, but that it is Amida Tathagata's great other-power faith. Accordingly, all those who have once attained other-power faith should reflect gratefully on Amida Tathagata’s benevolence and repeat the nembutsu, saying the Name of the Buddha always, in gratitude for the Buddha’sbenevolence.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 12: On the Sleeve of Amida) I would encourage readers and listeners to share these PDFs and recordings with family and friends(especially the audio recordings for those who may have difficulties with reading) so that as many people as possible may benefit. I also hope that these verses help others and motivate them to find a good teacher like Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea, listen deeply to Amida Dharma and think and say: Namo Amida Butsu Namo Amida Butsu NamoAmidaButsu Thank you Amida Buddha Homage to Amida Buddha I take refuge in Amida Buddha Click here to download the poem in pdf, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNKTCG9xTW8uVFI4ULddJzxM9TiOYa8m/view?usp=sharing Gansen John Welch is a member and lay teacher of Amidaji temple and narrator of Josho Adrian Cirleas's books. You can listen to the audio versions of Rev Josho's books at these links: Amida Dharma (the essential doctrine of Amidaji temple), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN50AWSV9KK_y1VYZZ4Kh0G The Meaning of Faith and Nembutsu in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNten2hOrWQTGXhcMfpZ_3Z The Four Profound Thoughts Which Turn The Mind Towards Amida Dharma https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNun5JJtVnqXvAx3JxYq_NZ The True Teaching on Amida Buddha and His Pure Land https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN8Vk7gD2wh0LmfV4hu-0fc The Path of Acceptance - Commentary on Tannisho https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTOFtQBVGL7vx3ouFnn_K5li More will follow soon! Contact details and information about Rev Josho and Amidaji temple: http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

If you want to study in detail my explanations on the benefits of being born in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha please go to chapter “The Nirvanic features of the Pure Land and its inhabitants (sections 14-21)", page 311, from my book Commentary on the Sutra on the Buddha of Infinite Life. You can buy the printed version of this book or download the free pdf at this link - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2019/01/commentary-on-sutra-on-buddha-of.html You can also go to chapter "The benefits of being born in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha" (page 195) from my book The Four Profound Thoughts which Turn the Mind Toward Amida Dharma. You can buy the printed version of this book or download the free pdf at this link – http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2017/11/my-new-book-four-profound-thoughts.html There is also a collection of passages on the true meaning of birth in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha that you can find at page 96 from my book The True Teaching on Amida Buddha and His Pure Land. You can buy the printed version of this book or download the free pdf at this link - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-new-book-true-teaching-on-amida.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

Click here to go to Keshin's spiritual autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/members-of-amidaji-keshin-maria-zita.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

In this discussion I made reference to the discussion between Yuienbo and Shinran from the chapter 9 of Tannisho, so I invite you to please download my book THE PATH OF ACCEPTANCE - COMMENTARY ON TANNISHO from this link http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2011/11/path-of-acceptance-commentary-on.html and go to that chapter for a more in depth explanation. Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html Click here if you wish to support my Dharma work with a little donation - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html

Fragment from one of our zoom meetings with members of Amidaji sangha. Here is the chapter in my Commentary on the Larger Sutra I was referring to in the video: "The karmic situation of beings who have no aspiration for Enlightenment and Shakyamuni’s encouragement to do good in daily life and wish to be born in the Pure Land – commentary on sections 31 - 40 (PART II) of the Larger Sutra" - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-karmic-situation-of-beings-who-have_10.html Here is what Rennyo Shonin said to meat eaters - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2009/04/words-of-rennyo-useful-for-meat-eaters.html And here is the definition of sexual misconduct according to various passages in the sacred texts - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-definition-of-sexual-misconduct.html Other useful links: Click here if you wish to support my Dharma work with a little donation - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

Introduction by Gansen John Welch, I wrote this new poem to thank and honour my teachers Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea and Paul Roberts as well as our Amida Dharma Masters, Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tan-Luan, Daochuo, Shandao, Genshin, Honen,Shinran and Rennyo without whom I could not have found and understood (in my case, to some small extent) Amida Dharma and my utter helplessness, trapped in the endless suffering of samsara. Never forget these wise words from Tannisho by Yuienbo: “As I humbly reflect on the past [when the late master Shinran was alive] and the present in my foolish mind, I can not but lament the divergences from the true shinjin that he conveyed by speaking to us directly, and I fear there are doubts and confusions in the way followers receive and transmit the teaching. For how is entrance into the single gate of easy practice possible unless we happily come to rely on a true teacher whom conditions bring us to encounter? Let there be not the slightest distortion of the teaching of Other Power with words of an understanding based on personal views.” My hope is that readers and listeners will find that certain words, phrases, ideas and concepts in this poem resonate with their past and present experience and prove to be helpful and meaningful in increasing their understanding of this profound and precious Amida Dharma. As Master Rennyo wrote: “There will also be those who are lacking in faith (fushinjin). This is an extremely serious matter. For unless there is a decisive settling of faith, the birth that is to come in the fulfilled land is uncertain. Therefore, those whose faith is lacking (fushin)should in all haste attain the decisive mind.The human realm is a place of uncertainty. The Land of utmost bliss is one of eternity. Hence we should not make our abode in the uncertain human realm, but rather aspire to [birth in] the eternal Land of Utmost Bliss. In our tradition, therefore, the matter of faith is placed before all else; unless we are fully aware of the reason for this, everything is meaningless. We must promptly undergo a decisive settling of faith (anjin) and aspire to birth in the Pure Land.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 11: On the Anniversary of Master Shinran’s Death) “There is, then, no anxiety over becoming a Buddha. How incomparable is the all-surpassing Primal Vow! And how gracious Amida Tathagata’s light! Without encountering the [receptive] condition of this light, there can be no cure at all for the fearful sickness of ignorance and karma-hindrance, which has been ours from the beginningless past. Prompted by the condition of this light, and with the ripening of good from the past, we assuredly attain other-power faith now. It is immediately clear, however, that this is faith granted by Amida Tathagata. Hence we know now, beyond question, that this is not faith generated by the practitioner, but that it is Amida Tathagata's great other-power faith. Accordingly, all those who have once attained other-power faith should reflect gratefully on Amida Tathagata’s benevolence and repeat the nembutsu, saying the Name of the Buddha always, in gratitude for the Buddha’sbenevolence.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 12: On the Sleeve of Amida) I would encourage readers and listeners to share these PDFs and recordings with family and friends(especially the audio recordings for those who may have difficulties with reading) so that as many people as possible may benefit. I also hope that these verses help others and motivate them to find a good teacher like Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea, listen deeply to Amida Dharma and think and say: Namo Amida Butsu Namo Amida Butsu NamoAmidaButsu Thank you Amida Buddha Homage to Amida Buddha I take refuge in Amida Buddha Click here to download the poem in pdf, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qP2eJ0FmeUsLemDn39rvxgy6FHBbacz4/view?usp=sharing Gansen John Welch is a member and lay teacher of Amidaji temple and narrator of Josho Adrian Cirleas's books. You can listen to the audio versions of Rev Josho's books at these links: Amida Dharma (the essential doctrine of Amidaji temple), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN50AWSV9KK_y1VYZZ4Kh0G The Meaning of Faith and Nembutsu in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNten2hOrWQTGXhcMfpZ_3Z The Four Profound Thoughts Which Turn The Mind Towards Amida Dharma https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNun5JJtVnqXvAx3JxYq_NZ The True Teaching on Amida Buddha and His Pure Land https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN8Vk7gD2wh0LmfV4hu-0fc The Path of Acceptance - Commentary on Tannisho https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTOFtQBVGL7vx3ouFnn_K5li More will follow soon! Contact details and information about Rev Josho and Amidaji temple: http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

Try your best, but if you fail, never feel abandoned. Entrust to Amida Buddha as you are. Namo Amida Bu 🙏 If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

Click here to read The way to faith - listening to the teaching (fascicle 8 of Amida Dharma - the essential doctrine of Amidaji) - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/03/amida-dharma-fascicle-8-way-to-faith.html Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

For a detailed explanation of the "Ten benefits in this life of faith in Amida Buddha" go to the same chapter in my book "The Meaning of Faith and Nembutsu in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism", page 162. You can download this book for free or buy a printed copy at this link - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-book-meaning-of-faith-and-nembutsu.html This video is a fragment from a Dharma discussion I had recently with my brothers Gankai, Joshin, Hogen and Myoshin of Amidaji temple. Gankai's youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYQCzY8E3K0XLkIEb95a5cA Joshin's youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwn045Hj8H7S-8HRoMFzTkA Hogen's youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyUy4b5QHmrcRGCWY1cqcw Click here if you wish to support my Dharma work with a little donation. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

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Click here to read my article on the Five conditions for birth in the Pure Land - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2016/10/five-conditions-for-birth-in-pure-land.html If you find my videos useful please click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Click here if you wish to become a patron or make a donation to support my Dharma work. Any little help is appreciated and very much needed - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/donation.html Click here if you want to know about Amidaji temple - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Click here if you want to read my autobiography - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-path-between-thorns-my-spiritual.html Click here to download my books for free - http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/the-true-teaching-on-amida-buddha-and.html Click here if you want to order the printed copies of my books - https://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/2020/08/amidaji-bookstore-libreria-amidaji.html

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Introduction by Gansen John Welch, I wrote this new poem to thank and honour my teachers Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea and Paul Roberts as well as our Amida Dharma Masters, Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tan-Luan, Daochuo, Shandao, Genshin, Honen,Shinran and Rennyo without whom I could not have found and understood (in my case, to some small extent) Amida Dharma and my utter helplessness, trapped in the endless suffering of samsara. Never forget these wise words from Tannisho by Yuienbo: “As I humbly reflect on the past [when the late master Shinran was alive] and the present in my foolish mind, I can not but lament the divergences from the true shinjin that he conveyed by speaking to us directly, and I fear there are doubts and confusions in the way followers receive and transmit the teaching. For how is entrance into the single gate of easy practice possible unless we happily come to rely on a true teacher whom conditions bring us to encounter? Let there be not the slightest distortion of the teaching of Other Power with words of an understanding based on personal views.” My hope is that readers and listeners will find that certain words, phrases, ideas and concepts in this poem resonate with their past and present experience and prove to be helpful and meaningful in increasing their understanding of this profound and precious Amida Dharma. As Master Rennyo wrote: “There will also be those who are lacking in faith (fushinjin). This is an extremely serious matter. For unless there is a decisive settling of faith, the birth that is to come in the fulfilled land is uncertain. Therefore, those whose faith is lacking (fushin)should in all haste attain the decisive mind.The human realm is a place of uncertainty. The Land of utmost bliss is one of eternity. Hence we should not make our abode in the uncertain human realm, but rather aspire to [birth in] the eternal Land of Utmost Bliss. In our tradition, therefore, the matter of faith is placed before all else; unless we are fully aware of the reason for this, everything is meaningless. We must promptly undergo a decisive settling of faith (anjin) and aspire to birth in the Pure Land.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 11: On the Anniversary of Master Shinran’s Death) “There is, then, no anxiety over becoming a Buddha. How incomparable is the all-surpassing Primal Vow! And how gracious Amida Tathagata’s light! Without encountering the [receptive] condition of this light, there can be no cure at all for the fearful sickness of ignorance and karma-hindrance, which has been ours from the beginningless past. Prompted by the condition of this light, and with the ripening of good from the past, we assuredly attain other-power faith now. It is immediately clear, however, that this is faith granted by Amida Tathagata. Hence we know now, beyond question, that this is not faith generated by the practitioner, but that it is Amida Tathagata's great other-power faith. Accordingly, all those who have once attained other-power faith should reflect gratefully on Amida Tathagata’s benevolence and repeat the nembutsu, saying the Name of the Buddha always, in gratitude for the Buddha’sbenevolence.” (The Letters of Master Rennyo, Fascicle Five, 12: On the Sleeve of Amida) I would encourage readers and listeners to share these PDFs and recordings with family and friends(especially the audio recordings for those who may have difficulties with reading) so that as many people as possible may benefit. I also hope that these verses help others and motivate them to find a good teacher like Reverend Josho Adrian Cirlea, listen deeply to Amida Dharma and think and say: Namo Amida Butsu Namo Amida Butsu NamoAmidaButsu Thank you Amida Buddha Homage to Amida Buddha I take refuge in Amida Buddha Click here to download the poem in pdf, https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_dU641FWEAFfEG79lub91s5uxOYSWla/view?usp=sharing Gansen John Welch is a member and lay teacher of Amidaji temple and narrator of Josho Adrian Cirleas's books. You can listen to the audio versions of Rev Josho's books at these links: Amida Dharma (the essential doctrine of Amidaji temple), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN50AWSV9KK_y1VYZZ4Kh0G The Meaning of Faith and Nembutsu in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNten2hOrWQTGXhcMfpZ_3Z The Four Profound Thoughts Which Turn The Mind Towards Amida Dharma https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTNun5JJtVnqXvAx3JxYq_NZ The True Teaching on Amida Buddha and His Pure Land https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTN8Vk7gD2wh0LmfV4hu-0fc The Path of Acceptance - Commentary on Tannisho https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1TmuLHxJGTOFtQBVGL7vx3ouFnn_K5li More will follow soon! Contact details and information about Rev Josho and Amidaji temple: http://amida-ji-retreat-temple-romania.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

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