The second movement: Light of Amida Nembutsu – Part 2

The latter part: The light of Amitabha Buddha

―The Nembutu is existed for saving us all―

The Shonin answered like this to the asker about the Nembutu in Higashi Market with calm expression.

“Namu” means trusting and entrusting and “Namu Amida Butu” means living with yourself entrusting in the unlimited the light of Yata.

He told us that it is enlisting all of you in the teaching of Amitabha Buddha.

We are humans and they live supporting each other.

Amitabha Buddha is always presenting its teaching to us.

That vow is “Namu Amida Butu”.

Anyone can be reborn in paradise if he or she praises “Namu Amida Butu” even once.
If we chant “Namu Amida Butu”, Amida Buddha will surely sweep us all away to paradise. No one is discarded, equally.
That is why we will never again have to live in a circle around a lost world such as hell.

“But the master I work for said that to be reborn in paradise, you have to make Buddha statues, build temples, and transcribe sutras, what do you think?”
“Surely, that’s not wrong either. Building Buddha statues and temples is one of the means to be reborn in paradise.”
“One of the means?”
“Yes. There are many other ways to be reborn in paradise. Among these means is nembutu. Therefore, if we once utter Namu Amida Butu, we will surely be reborn in paradise. Anyone, without fail.”

Those who heard the story were very moved.

There is meaning and value in life even if I am like this. I can be saved even if I am like this.

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The teachings have become deeply ingrained in his own heart. Since then, people have been calling for people to come and listen to the shonin’s stories.

Nowadays, unlike the usual buying and selling of goods through “coins,” the relationship between spiritual and material blessings is established through the “teachings of the Nembutu.”

―The Nembutu is now not only to appease the spirits of the dead and to mourn for them. It is being celebrated as something that gives meaning and value to life and salvation to all of us.―

Oyu was saying so.

Therefore, people are gathering around the Shonin-sama. In order to remove anxiety and gain ease by touching the teachings of the nembutu. At first, the city official who had kept a close eye on him to see if he was disturbing public order gradually stopped saying anything. The Shonin’s nembutu, on the contrary, gives people peace of mind and comfort. Rather, Oyu speculated that it might be because they see it as playing a role in maintaining public safety. Disturbances in public safety are born from the troubles and worries that people’s minds create.

“Well, here we are.”
I am now being urged by Oyu to go on through the hustle and bustle to that Shonin-sama.
After proceeding for a while, I saw a crowd of people amidst the hustle and bustle of the city. Some are standing on the spot; others are sitting on the ground. People of all sorts of different people were gathering there.
“Oyu, what’s that crowd?”
“It seems that many people have come to listen to Shonin’ stories today as well.”
I was eventually about to come face to face with the man.

To the man, Ichi-no-Hijiri, the City Sage of the Amida, Kuya Shonin.

“The second movement is completed”

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