Amida Buddha’s Mouth

Even according to the Shin school that believes in Amida Buddha as a saver of sentient beings, this is also not absolute teaching. When we say Amida Buddha, Amida Buddha includes every one of us. The mouth we repeat Amida Buddha’s name is also Amida Buddha’s mouth, not our mouth. When we repeat his name with this idea, then that is to believe in Amida Buddha. It is not because we repeat his name that Amida Buddha saves us but because all of us are originally a part of Amida Buddha. That is our understanding of how we believe in Amida Buddha.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-07-23 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.