5th
”When you encounter the nembutsu with your whole being, you are filled with gratitude becoming aware of everything in your past as a gift from the Buddha.” Head Priest.
12th
“Hearing the meaning of the Name on a regular basis from a good teacher we have happened to meet is the only way for us to seek the truth of the Buddha-dharma.” Head Priest of Kofukuji Temple.
19th
”Towards the end of the Second World War, Venerable Reion Takehara, thirteenth Head Priest of Shogyoji Temple, ordered his disciples to collect and preserve a set of Gagaku music instruments, with the words ‘It is the sound of the Gagaku music way beyond the realm of language that will never be destroyed even if our state is destroyed.’” Head Priest.
26th
“ When I become aware of my suffering as being entirely my own problem and not the responsibility of others, then that suffering becomes meaningful for my life.” Young priest.