Namu Amida Butsu - Mel C. Thompson (Shaku Shotoku)

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Music

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• namu admida Butsu
• junirai
• gatha
• shin buddhism
• buddhist hymns
• jodo shinshu

[rory12001]

thank you for your wonderful chanting! you have the real heart of a Myokonin!

[melvinbrand]

@rory12001 Thank you for caring about these works. I hope one day to be healthy enough to perform them again, as I used to do on a weekly basis. I am grateful for your comment and for your sharing of shinjin.

[melvinbrand]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Nembutsu. It is amazing that I am still somehow living and functioning in this world; and it is all due to grace. There is no doubt that self-power was not going to preserve my life nor get me to enlightenment. Often, at night, laying there in bed, there is no other comfort than the Nembutsu.

[conejodeaguayviento]

Such a sad story yours. But thank you for this beautiful chanting, I'm recently learning about Shin Buddhism, and after my investigation of all the buddhist schools/movements I could know through the way this was the one that I said "this is the path for me".

Specially when I knew that even those who were marginalized from society - and consecuently excluded form the practice of other forms of buddhism and their rituals - were not forbidden to practice Nembutsu and Amida Services.

[melvinbrand]

@conejodeaguayviento It is almost too miraculous to believe that such a beautiful and generous vehicle could exist for people like myself. Like many of you, I studied just about every path popularly known and many lesser known ways. And all of these practices were great in many ways, but only one seemed to be infused with absolutely unconditional compassion for any being in any condition.

[melvinbrand]

@melvinbrand In another hymn on You Tube, "Nembutsu Lullaby," it talks about "all his sins are turned to light." And so, even as Shinran noted, that all of the lost paths and even tragedies, when infused with the light of the Nembutsu, all become part of that great compassion, and thus the story of our lives, however tragic, suddenly becomes all the more wonderful, when seen as leading to the discovery of Amida.  Whatever it took to get us here, that too is now miraculous.

[1388hng]

Beautiful song expressing your joy in the Nembutsu . Thank you for sharing.

[conejodeaguayviento]

That captivated me cause I thought "if this path is allowed for everybody, so it's the right one for me". Thank you again, and maybe you could start a sangha in your own place, just pray for it and if it's the best for everyone, it will happen.