The Way of Jodo Shinshu
Reflections on the Hymns of Shinran Shonin

Shozomatsu Wasan

Shozomatsu no Jodo Wasan

[ 1: The Hour of the Tiger ]
2: On Sadness
3: Hiding the Teachings
4: Kaushambi
5: Strife
6: Corrosion
7: Signs of Mappo
8: King Ashoka
9: Thorns and Brambles
10: Turning from the True
11: Mappo's Anvil
12: The Burning House
13: Causes of Conflict
14: On Gifts
15: Acuity
16: Chains
17: Floating
18: The Right and the True
19: Infinite Light
20: The Bodhi Tree
21: Entrusting
22: Going for Refuge
23: Ocean
24: Jiri-rita
25: Choices
26: Maitreya
27: Hubris?
28: More About Joy
29: Coming Home to Rest
30: Gratitude
31: Virtue
32: The Student
33: The Defiled World
34: The Rain and the Shade
35: Unfolding
36: The Long Night
37: Evil Karma
38: Interpretation
39: Self-power Nembutsu
40: Yuishinsho Mon'i
41: Wrong Views
42: Mean Minds
43: The Word of the Buddha
44: Voices of Compassion
45: Difficulties
46: Flowing
47: Arenas
48: Jodoshinshu
49: Quiet Depths
50: Two Ways, One Compassion
51: Beyond Comprehension
52: Suffering
53: Delegation
54: Laughter & Tears
55: Mind of Jiriki
56: No Enlightenment
57: Sangha
58: Buddha's Companions
59: Ondokusan

Doubt

60: Evidence of Doubt
61: The Hymns
62: The City of Doubt
63: Duplicity
64: Golden Chains
65: The Burden of Doubt
66: Even So
67: Karmic Inevitability
68: Love and Compassion
69: The Sacred Lotus
70: Various Kinds of Wisdom
71: Outwardly Wise
72: Benefitting Others
73: Torment
74: Amida Buddha's Call
75: No Rejects
76: Womblike Birth
77: Eliminating Alternatives
78: The Shackled Heart
79: Beyond Good and Evil
80: Resisting Compassion
81: The Doubters' Digest
82: Farewell to Doubt

Shotoku Taishi

83: Shotoku Taishi
84: Queen Shrimala
85: Timeless Nurture
86: A Detective Story
87: A Universal Way
88: The World Saviour
89: Pure and Defiled
90: Again, Singleness
91: A Cascade of Compassion
92: Compassionate Light
93: Going and Returning

Lament

94: Religion and Life
95: Rubble Changing into Gold
96: Devastation and Joy
97: Without Shame
98: The Ocean of Suffering
99: Tanomu
100: Ninety-five Teachings
101: Darkness to Darkness
102: Devadatta
103: The Wilted Flower
104: Rite & Ritual
105: Slaves & Servants
106: Shariputra and Maudgalyayana
107: Conditioned and Unconditioned
108: Only the Dharma
109: Shaku Shinran

Zenkoji

110-1: First Impressions
112: Words
113: Nothing to Prove
114: False Views
115: Unconditional Freedom
116: A Man of Truth

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