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Updated: May 25, 2025
And now, his time being at hand, Honen Shonin spake: "Thrice have I taken birth in the Land of Purity, and of these three times the last hath given unto me the fullness of peace." Once did Honen Shonin speak, saying: "In the glorious day of our Lord was I among the holy Assemblage on the Peak of Vultures, and my Spirit was rapt in self-instruction and in the doctrine of salvation."
All the priests and scholars of the word of Confucius had understanding of the doctrine of Shin Shu. A chosen vessel of the Blessed One that men might be saved, Honen Shonin was manifested in the world, and he opened wide the gate of perfect wisdom, having instructed mankind in the Holy Faith.
The excellent righteousness of Honen Shonin, his deeds and the wisdom that was in him, drew unto him for refuge many even of chief priests of the heretics that seek Nirvana through the way of the sages. Yea, they sought him even as their appointed teacher, radiant and stray of soul as the diamond.
And the crowding people attended upon him, even the priests and men and women of the nobles and of the lowly born. Now the time when Honen Shonin departed from this life was the twenty-fifth day of the young spring. In the second year of Kenriyaku he returned in peace unto the Land of the Father.
The national air is used in augmentation later as the bass for a Japanese song called "K Honen." The fidelity of the music is proved by the fact that Sir Edwin Arnold's Japanese wife recognized the various airs and was carried away by the national anthem. Flora Annie Steel. The grimness of this effect is indescribable.
Throughout the long, long Kalpas of my lives that are overpast could I never find the way of Deliverance, and if Honen Shonin, the Great Teacher, had not arisen in this world, vainly had I spent the precious hours of my life.
Though Zendo and Genshin, those great teachers, have well instructed us, yet had Honen Shonin kept silence, wherewith should we know the holy teaching of Shin-Shu, we who dwell in remote country and in an evil day?
For from the strength of the wisdom of light, Honen, the Great Teacher, came into the world and hath taught the chosen doctrine of the Divine Promise, and he hath built Jodo-Shinshu upon the rock.
Of all rare things it is the rarest that we should ourselves meet with the True Teacher, yet verily the chain of doubt in the Divine Mercy is the true cause of unending birth and death. Honen Shonin issued forth from the mysterious Light and his disciples beheld it. In his eyes was there nought of disparity between the wise and them that know not, between the noble and the lowly born.
Since the day when Honen Shonin appeared in the world, and set forth the single Ark of the Divine Promise, hath the Doctrine of the Pure Land gloriously shone upon the hearts of all men in the land of Nihon.
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