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No.18 On Great Compassion |
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Deep sorrow contains its own history. Compassion that is able to
embrace such sorrow must itself have shared the same
experience.
The words "Together with all beings without exception I would like
to attain birth in the Pure Land," that constitute the last half of the
ekomon (merit-transference gatha ) to be chanted at the end of the
service, are filled with this same boundless love and compassion.
Respectfully
Chimyo Takehara
January 2004
深い悲しみには、悲しみに至る歴史を内蔵する。
それを包み得る慈悲とは、経験を共にするものでなければならない。
勤行の最後に勤める、「普共諸衆生 往生安楽国」という回向文は、
限りない慈悲に満ちている言葉である。
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