Because Shin Buddhist awareness of “their bad karma” is beyond the realm of self-reflection, it is only through the transmission from master to disciple that we can fully understand the teaching that “the right object [of the Original Vow] is those who are [aware of their] bad karma.”
Humbly and respectfully
Chimyo Takehara
March 2005
真宗の「悪」の意識は、自己反省の域を超えるものである故、師より弟子への相承あってはじめて、「悪人正機」の全き領受ができる。