1st	The Head Priest said, “Despite the fact that we do not know ourselves, we try to judge others and make them act as we would like. We are dreadfully mistaken in this attitude. Awakened to how despicable we are, we bow in reverence before the Buddha.”
	2nd	The Head Priest said, “The Buddha appears in the relationships between ordinary beings.”
	3rd	The Head Priest said, “Faith is the change that comes about when we awaken from ‘the wish to know more’ to ‘the deepest gratitude of always saying thank you’.”
	4th	The Head Priest said, “When I feel myself to be a fake, I am saved by the nembutsu welling up from within.”
	5th	The Head Priest said, “Although we say we should ‘listen to the Dharma by attaining no-mind’, the act of ‘listening’ is in itself ‘no-mind’.”
	6th	The Head Priest said, “You don’t have to worry alone. Your Dharma friends help you with deep sympathy for your problems. This is your nembutsu Samgha.”
	7th	A classical music teacher said, “When each person’s responsibility is united into oneness, it creates music.”
	8th	A person whose father had just died said, “My father’s life was one of great contentment, his karma having shone forth boundlessly.”
	9th	At the man’s funeral wake Reverend Kojun Shinohara said, “He was a person who had met a good teacher and had followed throughout his life the way of entrusting oneself to the Buddha. During his life he kept shining in a little corner inconspicuously.”
	10th	Mr Uchida, who has moved from Tokyo to live in the Seiwa Taya, declared, “The way of living of nembutsu followers is always forward-looking and never stagnated.”
	11st	The Head Priest said, “We shouldn’t just to continue to bask in our experience of momentary joy. Once conscious of this tendency of ours we become increasingly aware of our insincere as we are being.”
	12th	The Head Priest said, “There are the sort of people who make us bored when talking. They are not clear in their awareness of themselves, so what they say to others tends to be vague.”
	13th	As the Head Priest said, “Having conversations can be more significant than reading books.”
	14th	Dr Kazuhiko Shimizu, the Director of Kyoto Shogyoji, said, “Not allowing myself to down into my karmic existence but using it instead as a springboard, I would like to open my mind to the light.”
	15th	Dr Kazuhiko Shimizu, the Director of Kyoto Shogyoji, said, “Embarking the taya way of life with open arms, we understand its meaning at a much deeper level, all our old preconceptions having vanished.”
	16th	Doctor Shimizu, the Director of Kyoto Shogyoji, declared, “Both the faith and the practice of Shin Buddhists are to be found in the relationship they create between their social life and the Buddha-dharma.”
	17th	The Head Priest said, “Finding ‘the significance of existence’ in the here and now is more important than striving for ‘the meaning of life’ in the future.”
	18th	Mr Naoki Eri, still studying to become a Buddhist sculptor, said, “Through my training I have been undergoing over the last three years I have come to understand how to learn with my whole being rather than just relying on my intellect.”
	19th	Mrs Etsuko Crellin, who had attended the ceremony of confirmation in London, said in her letter of thanks, “I thought I had reached the goal of my journey, instead I found myself standing before the gates of my house.”
	20th	Reverend Keimei Takehara, back temporarily from Tokyo, said, “It is very important to spend time thinking of others slowly and steadily whilst examining one’s own mind at the same time.”
	21st	Mrs Toako Konya observed, “When those who are accustomed to telling others to be kind are told to be kind themselves, they tend to be taken aback, become doubtful and question the speaker’s intentions. I myself have now become aware of this contradiction and learnt how difficult it is to listen to the Buddha-dharma.”
	22nd	Mr Kaname Nishitake, a teacher who takes care of children at the temple school, said, “In my own wish to be independent I found I was cutting myself from others. I would like now to listen to the children and their parents more attentively.”
	23rd	The Head Priest said, “ ‘Creativity through the Buddha-dharma’ comes about not just through our listening but through our actions.”
	24th	The Head Priest said, “When we finish building something we think of ourselves as being richer. In reality, however, the maintenance costs are huge and the whole construction begins to depreciate in value. A place that is empty but in which we can somehow manage to create one thing after another --- such a place is invaluable.”
	25th	The Head Priest said, “A taya house is not just a building in the precincts of a temple. It has profound significance just because people live in it and listen to the Buddha-dharma.”
	26th	The Head Priest said, “Although Japan is one of the civilized and developed countries of the world, the Buddha-dharma that has lain at the root of its civilization is beginning to lose its original spirituality. There has to be a religious restoration or civilization will die out.”
	27th	The Head Priest said, “Even if your life is very busy, it is of utmost importance that you wish at least to do things for others also. That way you will come to understand that everything is meant to help you get to know yourself and your life will become thereby immeasurably enriched.”
	28th	The Head Priest said, “You will find that it is when you lack the nembutsu that your life does not run smoothly.”
	29th	The Head Priest said, “Whenever we listen to the Buddha-dharma, we should be seeking to solve some problem and at the same time be aware of what is motivating us.”
	30th	The Head Priest said, “A person whose ultimate concern is to resolve the problem of their relationship with their parents is someone with both feet on the ground.”