Japanese Buddhist Proverbs
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77.—Sangé ni wa sannen no tsumi mo hōrobu.
One confession effaces the sins of even three years.
78.—Sannin yoréba, kugai.
Where even three persons come together, there is a world of pain.[1]
79.—San nin yoréba, Monjū no chié.
Where three persons come together, there is the wisdom of Monjū.[2]
80.—Shaka ni sekkyō.
Preaching to Sâkyamuni.
81.—Shami kara chōrō.
To become an abbot one must begin as a novice.
- ↑ Kugai (lit.: “bitter world”) is a term often used to describe the life of a prostitute.
- ↑ Monjū Bosatsu [Mañdjuśri Bodhisattva] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one. A saying of like meaning is, Hiza to mo dankō: “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it.
some one of them according to our karma.—Compare with No. 74.
