The role of a teacher is to make things simple and this is exactly what
I’m trying to do through my books. I pick and choose that which is easy to
understand from the many volumes of the sacred texts and organize and explain
them in such a way so that both the idiot and the scholar can understand and
receive faith (shinjin).
I also try to make useful connections between various Masters and their
teachings. For example, in this book I show that Honen and his disciple
Shinran, spoke the same language of faith and essentially taught the same
teaching although sometimes the words and context are different.
Among the many sayings of Honen, I chose a few in this book and my other
books, that I consider to be very important and which can serve as a standard
of reading and understanding him in our Amidaji branch of Jodo Sh...