11th

“At the start of my apprenticeship in Kyoto I complained about my boss, a master carpenter, to the Dharma master of my home temple where I was born. My master, however, replied, ‘It is not someone else that you are confronting here, but your own self.’ Ever since then, I have always thought that it is simply my own self that I need to deal with.” Rev. Washin Uenosono

"It is generally said that doing services due to feeling gratitude, but I think that it is possible that feeling gratitude due to doing services." His Eminence Koken Otani, the Supreme Primate of Higashi Honganji.