1st	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “Regarding your children, do not leaving others to make the decision. When you decide which juku (crammer) to send your children to, or which upper school to choose for them, it’s up to you to decide.”
	2nd	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “In truth the reality of our existence includes suffering.”
	3rd	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “It is clear these days that people more and more tend to choose what is convenient and rely on the good will of others. If you continue to behave in this way, your children will respond to you unsympathetically in the future.”
	4th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “If you want to enjoy a life-long relationship with your children, you should sympathize with and care for those around you also. If your only concern is with yourself and your children, you will experience nothing but temporal self-satisfaction.”
	5th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “The thought that however insignificant it is at least I can do this little favor for others leads one to the world of mutual respect.”
	6th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “When you become aware of the voice of one who really thinks of you, it is the Buddha talking.”
	7th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “Although we talk about ‘Other Power of the Original Prayer,’ this is not mere dependence on the Buddha. It means that at the one-thought moment when we entrust ourselves to the Buddha, we become aware of our whole existence as being the working of the Buddha. The opposite is ‘mere dependence’ and ‘lack of responsibility’.”
	8th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “Mere dependence leads to a lack of responsibility, jealousy and an inferiority complex. If you have an inferiority complex, you will start calculating and plotting quite unnecessarily and cause harm to others. Without responsibility, there can never be true encounter.
	9th	The Head Priest said at a meeting for young ladies, “When we become serious about matters we had originally considered were the concern of others, we become aware that these maters are actually our responsibility. This is the closest evidence we have of the awakening of faith.”
	10th	The Head Priest said, “The Buddha-dharma is ‘action (or practice).’ Learn it with your whole body, not just through memorizing it or through intellectual understanding.”
	11st	The Head Priest observed, “When we become aware of what has been done for us, we accept it with gratitude. It is awareness that leads us to respond with gratitude to the Buddha.”
	12th	Mrs Hisa Miyazaki said, “What I have learnt is the certainty that a respectful mind leads to true faith.”
	13th	The Head Priest said, “Know your own limitations! That is the same as being awake of ‘the here and now’.”
	14th	At the Summer Training Assembly Reverend Keimei Takehara said, “The existence of ‘a taya house’ motivates me to work. How happy I am to be with a good teacher and Dharma friends who are so sincere in their desires!”
	15th	Mr Kenji Toda, a Dharma friend from the Kanto District, said, “I shall never forget my master’s kind words, telling me I would be able to revere the lotus flower from its roots beneath the water.”
	16th	At the Summer Training Assembly Reverend Josen Matsunaga said, “Stop doing whatever you feel obliged to do. Do instead whatever you are impelled to do.”
	17th	Reverend Kojun Shinohara said, “When you think about the origin [of your life], then a path will open up before you.”
	18th	At the Summer Training Assembly the Head Priest stated, “When people of different languages, customs and nationalities encounter one another with mutual respect, then we will find true courtesy.”
	19th	At the Summer Training Assembly the Head Priest declared, “The essence of music lies in the harmony created through music between those who share one spirit and one language.”
	20th	At the Summer Training Assembly the Head Priest told us, “Once we discover ‘the significance of being in the here and now’, we come to enjoy making an effort in the true sense and the effort we make will be long lasting. When this is so, our relationship with our friends will become more assured.”
	21st	At the Summer Training Assembly the Head Priest also said, “It is ‘light’ that penetrates everything whether of form or of no form. The deepest dimension of the Buddha-dharma is expressed by ‘light’.”
	22nd	The Head Priest said, “Breaking through all barriers of form and no form, ‘light’ and ‘nembutsu’ reverberate.”
	23rd	The Head Priest said, “Light penetrates wherever we attain true encounter,. When we receive light, faith is born and through the joy of faith the Buddha Name (myogo) starts working.”
	24th	The Head Priest said, “Led by ‘light’, ordinary beings live their [karmic] lives that Amida Buddha vowed to save.”
	25th	The Head Priest said, “Nembutsu is something that we cannot find by ourselves.”
	26th	The Head Priest said, “It is when things of life become serious that the reality of our existence is made clear.”
	27th	Mr Yoichi Uchida, who lives in Seiwa Taya, said, “When I underwent an introspection session I felt that hitherto I’d merely been attempting to patch up my life. Now, however, being in a taya house I feel I can live my life seamlessly.”
	28th	The Head Priest said, “If even the deepest recesses of your mind become full of light, that is proof of your continuous listening to the Buddha-dharma.”
	29th	The Head Priest said, “If there is no true encounter between parents and children, there will be no proper relationship or reciprocal education between them. To put it succinctly, not only parents but children too will be free to ‘go-as-they-please’.”
	30th	The Head Priest said, “Those who are not indolent come to know the ‘light’ and accomplish many things. This eventually leads them ‘to help others’.”
	31st	The Head Priest said, “It is important to listen to the Buddha-dharma and to keep listening and immerse yourself in it as if you were a bamboo basket sunk in water. [What is important is] continuous repetition and diligent effort. This is the reality of faith that emerges from having a respectful mind.”