I hear you calling to me,
and I reply quietly,
“I am here with you.”
Yet you keep calling and calling,
asking someone to help you.
It's as though you never hear my reply.
Then I realize you only hear yourself
calling for help, and not listening
to me reply quietly,
"I am here with you."
I hear you calling me! I hear you…
I hear you when I call your name. I hear you…
I hear you calling…
I hear you…
I hear you calling…
I hear you…
I hear you…
I hear you cry, “I can't live without someone to love me.”
I hear you calling!
I hear you…
I hear you calling!
I hear you…
One day I will find you nearby.
All I have to do is listen for you.
When I call your name,
it is you who answers,
"I am here with you.
Just call for me, and you will hear me!"
When I listen with my heart,
I will hear your answer to my call.
Every time I call for you,
you are here with me.
I hear you call me! I hear you...
I hear you when I call your name. I hear you…
I hear you calling...
I hear you...
I hear you calling...
I hear you...
I hear you...
I hear your cry, "My love goes out to you forevermore."
I hear you calling!
I hear you...
I hear you calling!
I hear you...
This poem is inspired by the Nembutsu, which is known to Pure Land Buddhists of the Jodo Shinshu faith as the Name-that-calls.
It is said that when the devotee recites the Name-that-calls, it is Amida Buddha calling.
In my poem, both Amida and the devotee are referred to as "I" and "you", as the lover and her beloved.
Thus the lover calls to her beloved, who replies to her wherever she may be.
This is not just Buddhist. This is also romantic. For the source of all love is unconditional love.
Originally posted on March 23, 2005 at 8:11 PM
Showing posts with label Yuzu Nembutsu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yuzu Nembutsu. Show all posts
20140805
20140117
Natural Highs Through Meditation Versus Chanting (satire)
Natural highs occur all the time, be it from exercise like jogging or even viewing art.
I am at this point in my meditation where even taking photos and posting them on GooglePlus gives me a brief high, which is safer than drugs but even more addicting due to the fact that nobody has ever died from taking pictures and posting them on-line.
Getting high requires no drugs, just the ability to breath deeply and hold it for 15 seconds and report for 15 minutes a day. To get good at it, read the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Also, invest in a samatha-vipassana meditation retreat when you can afford it. It beats going to the bar on Friday and waking up to a hangover Sunday.
Of course, that is the hard way of achieving a natural high. However, it will prepare your mind for the easy way of chanting.
For the easy method is to chant along with those quaint chants on YouTube with the dharani of the Buddhas when sober. In my case, I chant the Nembutsu for all sentient beings. It's called Yuzu Nembutsu.
As well there is the chant associated with the Lotus Sutra and promoted by Nichiren (Namyo rengé kyo)
Why, last night, I had to stop chanting because it made me sleepy, which is actually a natural high too.
For all getting high means is changing consciousness. However, I recommend chanting while sober.
For drugs are a dangerous shortcuts for potentially suicidal people. Like the young people I follow on twitter always tweet after someone tweets their bad trip, "Mm-mm. Drugs are bad."
I am at this point in my meditation where even taking photos and posting them on GooglePlus gives me a brief high, which is safer than drugs but even more addicting due to the fact that nobody has ever died from taking pictures and posting them on-line.
Getting high requires no drugs, just the ability to breath deeply and hold it for 15 seconds and report for 15 minutes a day. To get good at it, read the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Also, invest in a samatha-vipassana meditation retreat when you can afford it. It beats going to the bar on Friday and waking up to a hangover Sunday.
Of course, that is the hard way of achieving a natural high. However, it will prepare your mind for the easy way of chanting.
For the easy method is to chant along with those quaint chants on YouTube with the dharani of the Buddhas when sober. In my case, I chant the Nembutsu for all sentient beings. It's called Yuzu Nembutsu.
As well there is the chant associated with the Lotus Sutra and promoted by Nichiren (Namyo rengé kyo)
Why, last night, I had to stop chanting because it made me sleepy, which is actually a natural high too.
For all getting high means is changing consciousness. However, I recommend chanting while sober.
For drugs are a dangerous shortcuts for potentially suicidal people. Like the young people I follow on twitter always tweet after someone tweets their bad trip, "Mm-mm. Drugs are bad."
20140111
Oyasama is Calling (poem)
When I am calling the Nembutsu
it is actually Amida Nyorai calling to me.
When we are calling the Nembutsu
it is actually Amida Nyorai calling to us all.
In this way, my calling benefits others,
and their calling benefits me.
How so? Only Oyasama knows.
Who is Oyasama? Namu Amida Butsu.
Yuzu is Amida Buddha calling
through me to help bring peace to
all of us, and us
calling to Amida to help bring peace
to me but especially all of you.
When I am calling, Amida
calls through me to the whole world.
When we are calling, Amida
actually is calling to us all.
In this way, Nembutsu truly is
the Name-that-calls, for Yuzu is
but the meritorious of Nembutsu
simple because it is the call
heard around the whole world.
When we call to Amida Buddha,
what is it but the whole world
calling out to everyone of us?
it is actually Amida Nyorai calling to me.
When we are calling the Nembutsu
it is actually Amida Nyorai calling to us all.
In this way, my calling benefits others,
and their calling benefits me.
How so? Only Oyasama knows.
Who is Oyasama? Namu Amida Butsu.
Yuzu is Amida Buddha calling
through me to help bring peace to
all of us, and us
calling to Amida to help bring peace
to me but especially all of you.
When I am calling, Amida
calls through me to the whole world.
When we are calling, Amida
actually is calling to us all.
In this way, Nembutsu truly is
the Name-that-calls, for Yuzu is
but the meritorious of Nembutsu
simple because it is the call
heard around the whole world.
When we call to Amida Buddha,
what is it but the whole world
calling out to everyone of us?
Beyond I AM Still is Consciousness (satire)
Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj said: "I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared — myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence."
When I used to do a lot of sitting meditation for more than fifteen minutes, my back would ache and my knees would hurt.
Then it came to me that I need not suffer in pain doing Zen meditation with my left kneecap shattered and never touched by doctors. Instead, when I did Nembutsu meditation, and chanted for all humanity, my left knee healed on its own.
In my mind, how can there truly be "I am" when only Buddha Nature exists? The answer is, that which is "I am" is Buddha Nature. However, this "I am" is the consciousness stream itself.
Indeed, all the joy and deep love for humanity could be encountered after chanting Nembutsu with love for all sentient beings in this invisible net of Indra spread around the world!
Suppose then that my highest state of consciousness achieve is when insomnia has overtaken me and only the psychiatric professionals are left to worry if I am ready to crack.
However, the only crack to come out of all this Nembutsu chanting is, "You don't need to sit on your ass for hours to chant."
Sometimes when chanting it even seems like the whole world has gone, myself, my home, my present life, and even traffic noise.
In that silence, I find peace because Amida is calling without words.
Namu Amida Butsu!
20130827
Yuzu / 融通
When this one chants the Nembutsu
it benefits the world
When all chant,
it benefits this one.
これは念仏を詠唱するとき
それは、世界に利益をもたらす
ときに、すべての聖歌、
それはこの1つをメリット。
Yuzu Buddhism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_Nembutsu
Yuzu Nembutsu (融通念仏宗 Yūzū-nenbutsu-shū?) is a school of Pure Land Buddhism that focuses on the ritual recitation of the Nembutsu (or Nianfo), the name of the Amitabha Buddha.
Followers believe this recitation benefits not just the speaker, but the entire world as well. The sect began in the twelfth century when a monk named Ryōnin wrote commentary on rituals and hymns in practice at the time and founded the school.
The distinction of this Pure Land sect lies in its emphasis on the nature of interconnectedness amongst phenomena. The recitation of the nembutsu was not merely an individual quest for salvation in the Pure Land. A practitioner's chants of nembutsu benefitted everybody else and everybody else's chants of nembutsu benefitted the solo practitioner.
it benefits the world
When all chant,
it benefits this one.
これは念仏を詠唱するとき
それは、世界に利益をもたらす
ときに、すべての聖歌、
それはこの1つをメリット。
Yuzu Buddhism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_Nembutsu
Yuzu Nembutsu (融通念仏宗 Yūzū-nenbutsu-shū?) is a school of Pure Land Buddhism that focuses on the ritual recitation of the Nembutsu (or Nianfo), the name of the Amitabha Buddha.
Followers believe this recitation benefits not just the speaker, but the entire world as well. The sect began in the twelfth century when a monk named Ryōnin wrote commentary on rituals and hymns in practice at the time and founded the school.
The distinction of this Pure Land sect lies in its emphasis on the nature of interconnectedness amongst phenomena. The recitation of the nembutsu was not merely an individual quest for salvation in the Pure Land. A practitioner's chants of nembutsu benefitted everybody else and everybody else's chants of nembutsu benefitted the solo practitioner.
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