Buddhist Thought For The Week.2

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. - Buddha

Buddhist Thought For The Week.1

Shan-tao's definition of the "Right Practices. (shogyo) is as follows: 1) to single-mindedly and wholeheartedly read and recite the Meditation Sutra, the Amida Sutra, and the Sutra of Immeasurable Life; 2) to single-mindedly and wholeheartedly contemplate the splendid view of Amida and the landscape in that Land; 3) to single-mindedly and wholeheartedly prostrate oneself before Amida Buddha; 4) to single-mindedly and wholeheartedly utter the name of Amida Buddha; and 5) when giving praises and offerings is in order, to single-mindedly and wholeheartedly praise and make offerings to Amida.