Honen Quotes on Knowledge
Hōnen (1133–1212), the founder of the Japanese Pure Land school (Jōdo-shū), gave Kamakura Buddhism one of its decisive doctrinal simplifications in the Senchaku Hongan Nembutsu Shū (Treatise on the Selected Original Vow of the Nembutsu, 1198). The framework treats the single practice of nembutsu — the recitation of the name of Amida Buddha in reliance on the bodhisattva vow that promised rebirth to those who call on it — as the only path adequate to the cognitive and moral incapacities of the present "latter days of the Law" (mappō), and the corresponding rejection of the received scholastic and meditative paths set the conditions for the subsequent reformist movements of Hōnen's disciple Shinran and the broader Pure Land tradition.
Quotes
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Attributed to Honen:
“Faith is greater than understanding.”
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“You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.”
Julian Assange , "Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle" . The Guardian . 2010-08-01 . Retrieved on 2010-08-01 . -
“He who says that there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave .”
George Berkeley , as quoted in Ladies Home Journal Vol. 97, No. 8 (August 1960). -
“Ben Carson , Think Big (p. 152).”
If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement.