1st

“When my sister was terminally ill she was able to come into direct contact with the Buddha thanks to the teaching of the nembutsu.” Spoken by a middle aged man from Osaka uttering a brief greeting on the occasion of the seventeenth anniversary of his younger sister's death.

 

8th

 “Being moved to your very core opens up a world where you yourself can hear the voice that calls you.” Words of a professor in the field of Shin Buddhist history speaking at the 51st Summer Training Assembly.

 

15th

”The pain of parting is such that it leads us to seek the true way of living.” Spoken at the 51st Summer Training Assembly by a professor in the field of Confucianism.

 

22nd

"It is not so much that your past conditions your future but that what you do in the future conditions what you have done in the past". Young priest speaking at the Hoonko ceremony.

 

29th

"Before the ceremony began I imagined it would be very dark in the Main Buddha Hall once all the lights were off and there remained only the dim flame of the candles. The moment I took my seat before all the Dharma friends to read out the sacred document, however, I felt as though the entire surroundings had suddenly become suffused with light". Words of a young priest who read the Godensho (Life of Shinran Shonin) at the Hoonko ceremony.