Article on Shin Buddhism in Tricycle magazine

[Susthama]

In the spring 2009 issue of Tricycle, Jeff Wilson interviews Mark and Taitetsu Unno about The Buddha of Infinite Light and Life

To read the article please go to The Buddha of Infinite Light and Life

[richard meyers]

Thanks a lot for putting this on. I really enjoyed the interview, especially the last sentence from Mark Unno, speaking about the word 'transform'; how "The passions don't become something else, they become more pungent. Pungent dharma. That's Shin Buddhism." I love that it's so freeing and real.

Best wishes,

Richard

[Susthama]

I agree with what you've written. So freeing and human indeed.. . sort of has echoes of the conditions in which a lotus flower grows.

And also, that the use of a word like pungent to describe a way of understanding what happens to the passions is typical of language that is found in Shin Buddhism.

richard meyers said:

Thanks a lot for putting this on. I really enjoyed the interview, especially the last sentence from Mark Unno, speaking about the word 'transform'; how "The passions don't become something else, they become more pungent. Pungent dharma. That's Shin Buddhism." I love that it's so freeing and real.

Best wishes,

Richard