「浄土の慈悲といふは、念仏して、いそぎ仏になりて、大慈大悲心をもって、おもふがごとく衆生を利益するをいふべきなり。」その浄土の慈悲というのはどういう慈悲かというと、必ず浄土に生まれて仏さまにしていただく私である、ということをわからせて下さ…

どんなに教学を熱心に研究しても、信心がなかったら決してお浄土へは参れません。助けると言って下さる如来様の言葉を真受けにしなければだめなのです。真受けというのは、丸ごと、そのままに受け入れるということです。如来さんはああ言うておられるけど、…

先日の新聞（英字）に次のような記事がありました。 Eureka! Scientists find ‘the’particle Scientists hailed the discovery of“ the missing cornerstone of physics ” July 4, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic p…

There is a flower I usually remember around the gloomy rainy season. It is a mountain lily which bloomed in the depths of a mountain my grandfather possessed. Mountain lilies growing in crowds I saw in my childhood showed me a picturesque …

Someone, I hear, says about a distance between a grandparent and a grandchild. According to him, a grandparent has two kinds of feelings to his or her grandchild : one is carefreeness that he or she has no responsibility to raise his or he…

This March, when I attended the Buddhist gathering in Kyoto, which I wrote here at the previous time, I had a very rare and amazing experience : I met a married couple, Mr. and Mrs. K, whom I met for the first time on that day. Despite the…