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A prayer by Imaoka sensei

The view from the window of my study in the Cambridge Unitarian Hall (Imaoka sensei’s calligraphy at the top). Click on photo to enlarge.
 

May we all be persistent in a free, creative, and universal faith, and go forward for the purpose of realizing the Kingdom of God, or Pure Land of Buddha, that is nothing but the Ideal Community.

Amen.

This prayer by Imaoka sensei (Shin’ichirō Imaoka, 1881-1988) can be found in his Selected Writings on Free Religion and Other Subjects, p. 115

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My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion/spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Konkokyo, Christian non-theism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free religious community in Cambridge (UK)

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