1st The Head Priest said, “We should not think that our parents’ virtue of pronouncing the nembutsu will bring us good fortune. From the bottom of their hearts our parents wish us to be awakened to faith. ”
2nd “I was very much relieved when I heard my daughter say ‘I would like to go to the temple’.” (From a Dharma friend’s letter.)
3rd The head Priest said, “Entering a taya house is leaving home. It is the fulfillment of all our lifelong karmic conditions.”
4th The Head Priest said, “When we become aware of our ignorance, our words will regain their original vitality.”
5th A taya resident said, “I was impelled to enter the taya, as otherwise I would never have had the opportunity to understand.”
6th A young man who saw his grandfather at the very end of the old man’s life stated, “A few days before my grandfather’s death he said ‘Namuamidabutsu’ over the phone to my mother, who replied ‘Namuamidabutsu, Namuamidabutsu. Thank you very much.’ For me at that moment the whole family became one.”
7th A follower living at Kasugayama said, “Shin Buddhism rolls forward with worldly law and the Buddha-dharma as its two wheels.”
8th Reverend Kojun Shinohara stated, “The Kyogyoshinsho is an anthology of the teachings written by the patriarchs who Shinran Shonin himself revered.”
9th Professor Shin Hyeon Ha said, “True ‘freedom’ is something that bears fruit within you. What you yourself think of as freedom actually ends up binding you.”
10th Professor Shin Hyeon Ha declared, “My relationship with Shogyoji is something that embraces me. I have been grateful for it every single day .”
11st A Korean girl student staying at the Tokyo Dojo said, “Whilst living in a taya house in Japan I was embraced by the warmth of those around me. One night I was moved to tears at having received so much kindness. My stay in the taya house for those three months is a memory I shall never forget.”
12th A Dharma friend in the Kanto District said, “On listening to the Buddha-dharma I was deeply shocked to discover that there were certain problems I was quite unable to solve by my worldly knowledge and that all that I took for granted should not in fact be looked at in such a way.”
13th A mother living in Kitakyushu said, “When I witnessed my son suffering so much following an accident, I felt like dying. With all my heart I wished I could change places with him. Only then it became clear to me how much I had, in the past, simply pretended to be a good parent.”
14th On Shomyo-bo’s return to the temple from London, the Head Priest said, “When one’s past is clearly illumined, one is awakened and lead to renounce the world (to leave home). Living with this awakened mind is attaining birth in the Pure Land.”
15th On Shomyo-bo’s return to the temple from London, the Head Priest said, “Forgetting what we have been given in everyday life, expecting too much of the future or being caught up in our past --- that is the reality of our daily lives!”
16 th On Shomyo-bo’s return to the temple from London, his grandmother, Mrs Kayo Hatae, said, “When I was awakened to the fact that I live my life based solely on what has been done for me, my whole being became embraced by Namuamidabutsu. I feel ashamed of my past when I depended solely on my own intellectual knowledge.”
17 th The Head Priest said, “To tell a lie is to lose your own personal faith.”
  18th The Head Priest said, “The essence of Buddhism in all its aspects is simply to ‘act’. Even though you may say good things, your true value ultimately depends on what motivates you to act and on what you actually do.”
19th The Head Priest said, “Our challenge to become like that person we admire may make us rivals but never enemies.”
20th At the last May Assembly Ms Sarah Mary Cummings said, “When I came to have ‘an ear to listen to others,’ their voices helped me to solve my own problems.”
21st At the last May Assembly Ms Sarah Mary Cummings said, “When we become aware that we are now living thanks to our ancestors, we think very seriously about what we should pass on to the next generation.”
22nd The Head Priest said, “If there is ‘any vestige of a sense of duty’ in your way of seeking after truth, you will only remain frustrated.”
23rd A lady living in the Seiwa Taya said, “My granddaughter, aged three, said to us, ‘I like going to the temple. Let’s go hand in hand!’ My husband then said with some emotion, ‘We have been wishing to pass on our faith to our grandchildren. But now, quite the opposite, they are teaching us’.”
24th Reverend Kamada, the Head Priest of Kyoganji Temple, said, “What is important is to change from ‘the way of teaching what we don’t possess’ to ‘the way of simply enjoying with others what is given us’.”
25th Reverend Keimei Takehara said, “If someone stands in opposition to your opinion, it is a great opportunity for you to truly encounter that person.”
26th Reverend Kojun Shinohara said, “One who can say thank you is the happiest person in the world.”
27th The Head Priest said, “If you deny your relationship with others, you cannot hope to progress spiritually.”
28th The Head Priest of Shoryuji Temple said, “Failing to understand the true meaning of ‘Other Power of the Original Prayer,’ I have mistaken it for ‘blind dependence on Other Power.”
29th The Head priest said, “If you hide yourself from others by switching between your private self and your public self, you cannot serve the Buddha.”
30th The Head Priest said, “It is not that I trust in the Original Prayer but that the Buddha trusts in me through his Original Prayer.”

31st

The Head Priest said, “Don’t try to be a teacher, but become a student in every way. Then you can accomplish your job as a teacher.”