This body has no one to rely on,
Like a boat adrift in a boundless ocean.
The radiance of compassion emanates from kalpas in the distant past;
The Vow-Power takes in and accepts people without discrimination.
To forget about
one’s own problem of birth-and-death while talking bombastically and volubly
about the Dharma doors is an attitude abhorred by Rennyo Shonin. In the face of
a dying person at death’s door, to tell him or her all about shinjin and saying
the nembutsu, is simply too late.
The dying person
whose eyes no longer see can only be saved by the Primal Vow-Power.
‘Other-power
is none other than the power of Tathagata's Primal Vow’ (Chapter on Practice
from Kyogyoshinsho). The Primal Vow-Power
is not intended to save people who like a great deal of speculation. Who is the
very sick and dying person? Stunned and ashamed, what remains is
Namu-amida-butsu! Namu-amida-butsu!
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