in the spring wind the doors open — namu amida butsu
harukaze no tobira hirakeba namu amida butsu
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
harukaze no tobira hirakeba namu amida butsu
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
Santōka Alarm is an iOS app that wakes you each morning with a single poem.
Set a poem you love as your alarm.
A poem at the Byōdō-in. When the hall's doors are opened in the spring wind, there is Amida Buddha. The six syllables of the nembutsu become the poem's close. Even the wind blowing in through the opened doors is calm before the Buddha.