{"id":4292,"date":"2015-03-01T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?post_type=ctc_event&#038;p=4292"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:41:04","slug":"precepts-for-the-pure-land-practitioner","status":"publish","type":"ctc_event","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/events\/precepts-for-the-pure-land-practitioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Precepts for the Pure Land Practitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often Western Pure Land practitioners wonder how to fully practice <em>Buddhanusmirti<\/em> (Buddha Recitation). What are the nuances of this practice? How can this practice make a real different in our lives? How can its practice open us to ultimate salvation? This talk and subsequent Q &amp; A will look into how to realistically practice Pure Land Buddhism according to the precepts of the influential 13 century master, Ippen Shonin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ippen<\/strong> (1234\u20131289) was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) who founded the Ji-Shu branch of Pure Land Buddhism. Presented by Rev. Senpai G. Lewis-Bast\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, \u201cIppen&#8217;s doctrine was primarily influenced by Sh\u014dk\u016b, founder of the Seizan branch of the J\u014ddo-sh\u016b, who &#8220;insisted that the various Buddhist practices contain no more than a portion of the merit of the single practice of the nembutsu and serve merely to lead people to recite the nembutsu.&#8221; However he was also strongly influenced by the non-dualism of Zen and even receive inka (a seal of recognition) as a Zen Master from Roshi Kakushin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sliding scale suggested donation $10 &#8211; $20<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A short <strong>Introduction to Meditation Training<\/strong> session will be held before the gathering at 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often Western Pure Land practitioners wonder how to fully practice Buddhanusmirti (Buddha Recitation). What are the nuances of this practice? How can this practice make a real different in our lives? How can its practice open us to ultimate salvation? This talk and subsequent Q &amp; A will look into how to realistically practice Pure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_event_category":[],"class_list":["post-4292","ctc_event","type-ctc_event","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/4292\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event_category?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}