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“The world is waiting for Buddhism and Shinran Shonin.”
"[The Pure Land Teaching] is the true teaching easy to practice for small, foolish beings; it is the straight way easy to traverse for the dull and ignorant."

(from Preface of The True Teaching, Practice, and Realization of the Pure Land Way)
"Sakyamuni Tathagata appeared in this world Solely to teach the oceanlike Primal Vow of Amida; We, an ocean of beings in an evil age of five defilements, Should entrust ourselves to the Tathagata’s words of truth."

(From section 102 of Chapter II of The True Teaching, Practice, and Realization of the Pure Land Way)
"The light of wisdom exceeds all measure, And every finite living being Receiving this illumination that is like the dawn, So take refuge in Amida, the true and real light."

(From Poems on Gathas in Praise of Amida Buddha)
"Our Connection to Ultimate Reality"

“The world is waiting for Buddhism and Shinran Shonin.”