Zero crowned and Pure Land mantra
FLASH! One of my alternate personas, Zero the Wunderweight clown, just got crowned King of Fools at the Occidental Fools Day parade, April 2.
photo by Michael Eschenbach/Salli Rasberry
With Occidental as Zero's 'realm,' he'll do his best until next year's crowning to make the village as silly as possible from 'safe exile' in San Francisco.
Zero K.O.F. (ahem!)
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I've become interested in Shin Buddhism's Nembutsu mantra, after reading D. T. Suzuki's comment that more people have achieved satori via the Pure Land (Shin) chanting approach than via Zen Buddish meditation. Aw right! That's for me!
I try to keep a silent mantra going in public by attaching it to whatever musical 'ear worm' is playing in my mind... Right now it's" 'Namo Amidha Butsu' set to "Easter Parade:"
E E G E D C G
Na-mo A-mi-dha Bu-tsu
It fits remarkably well with subsequent musical phrases also.
1 Comments:
i'm studying Jodo Shu - which takes it's teachings from Shinran's teacher, Honen Shonin
http://www.jodo.org/
small universe, eh??
peace;
bodhi
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