Dynamic Concentration
in Pure Land Buddhism
See video first: https://youtu.be/l4IDayXV6r0
Yuki's comment: I did a bit of searching online and was surprised to find that this practice at Ichikukai was originally practiced with the name of Amitabha, e.g. was a form of nembutsu, just as described in your What’s Next book and just like we practice with our Gurus' name in Amrita Mandala!!! Story goes that the founder of this method, Inoue Masakane (b. 1790) learned this from a woman who was a practitioner of an esoteric Pureland Buddhism called “hidden nembutsu”. He had an awakening with this method, but due to his father’s dying will to penetrate into the meaning of Shinto prayer, and his later having a vision of a Shinto deity, adopted his awakening experience and the method for it into a Shinto practice, that has been passed on to this day at a place like Ichikukai. Some of his disciples actually continued practicing it in its original form of rhythmic shouting of Amitabha’s name, which they called “kosho nembutsu” (loud voice nenbutsu), and apparently was practiced as recently as 1990s and may still be practiced somewhere in Japan. I thought this to be a compelling story as I have heard of your strong connection to Pureland Buddhism and so is your teacher Terayama-Roshi”.
