Shinspiration: Chanting is not enough

So, too, in Pure Land Buddhism it is not enough to simply repeat the chant Namu Amida Butsu. One must realize the depth of one’s foolishness, one’s blind passions, with the simultaneous unfolding of great compassion. The foolishness of the ego-self is illuminated and dissolved by the truest, deepest reality of the self: emptiness, oneness, boundless compassion.

- Rev. Mark Unno, The Awakening of Infinite Light, Tricycle (Fall 2022)