Rennyo Shonin Goichidaiki-kikigaki
"Thus I have Heard from Rennyo Shonin"
translation with notes
by Zuio H. Inagaki
INTRODUCTION
@At the height of his missionary activity, Rennyo edited and published the Shoshinge ³Mσ and Jodo Wasan ςya] as the standard service book for everybody. With the addition of The Letters, this form of service has continued to be held daily in every Jodoshinshu household and temple. As a guide for correct understanding of the Shoshinge, Rennyo wrote An Outline of the Shoshinge. His Dharma-messages, casual remarks, and records of his day-to-day acts were later compiled into Goichidaiki kikigaki (the Record of the Life of Master Rennyo) by Jitsugo ΐε, the tenth son of Rennyo, in 1580. As a method of spreading the teaching to the masses, Rennyo painted a great number of myogo (Amida's Name as the main object of worship). Besides the six-character name (rokuji myogo), he liked to paint what is called 'mugeko honzon' ³Vυ{Έ, using the ten-character name (juji myogo) as the main object of worship. He recommended his followers to use myogo as the object of worship rather than paintings and statues of Amida Buddha, saying, "In other schools, paintings are preferred to names, and statues are preferred to paintings. In this school, paintings are preferred to statues, and named are preferred to paintings."
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1. Nembutsu on New Year's Day | 2. Morning Service | 3. The Shonin forgot the service order | 4. Mindfulness and recitation ... | 5. The main object of worship should be .... |
6. 'Namo' means ... | 7. The Shonin said to Gansho Kakuzen | 8. The Shonin said to Kyoken and Kuken | 9. Discerning well but not accepting ... | 10. Deep understanding of shinjin |
11. Chanting the Shoshinge and .... | 12. However well you may study ..... | 13. Reincarnation of the Founder Shonin | 14. What a preacher should do | 15. Saying the nembutsu with joy |
16. Settle your shinjin well | 17. Appreciation for the year's end | 18. Urging of the Great Practice of ..... | 19. The Rightly Establoished State .. | 20. Returning to Kyoto from Tonda |
21. Speak out ofter attaining shinjin | 22. Visit to Sakai | 23. The import of two wasans | 24. The character 'mu' of 'namu' | 25. A hymn and a poem |
26. A poem on Toribeno | 27. The Founder's Portrait | 28. The Founder's Biography | 29. The original portrait painting ... | 30. All Buddhas join Amida |
31. Continuation of shinjin after attaining it | 32. Chanting the Shoshinge and Wasan... | 33. Six-character Name, Namo... | 34. The nembutsu to repay our ... | 35. Transgressions do not create ... |
36. Nembutsu recitation with Faith | 37. Birthless birth | 39. Merit- transference | 39 Useless to discuss our karmic .. | 40. Guiding those around us |
41. Calculations about outselves | 42. Teach in a mild tone | 43. The Hoonko service in the 6th. | 44. Farewell visit to Shinran's image | 45. Learn from the ancient, transmit ... |
46. Doshu of Akao | 47. Blame your mind | 48. Never getting tired of hearing... | 49. Everyone heard the Dharma ... | 50. One or two |
51 Hear the essential point | 52. Joyful nembutsu | 53. Rennyo's Letters | 54. The mind does not obey the words | 55. Control of one's mind comes from ... |
56. Those who hear the teaching in depth .. | 57. Turn the topic to the Buddha-Dharma | 58. Nobody thinks he is wrong | 59. Pretending to have acquired shinjin | 60. Speak in terse and easy terms |
61. | 62. | 63. | 64. | 65. |
66. | 67. | 68. | 89. | 70. |
71. | 72. | 73. | 74. | 75. |
76. | 77. | 78. | 79. | 20. |
81. | 82. | 83. | 84. | 85. |
86. | 87. | 88. | 89. | 90. |
Go to Kikigaki (1); return to Index.