Yugyo Travels Around the Country

 

Ippen, having left the Shingu shrine, traveled on the Saikaido road, by way of Kyoto.

In the autumn of Kenji 1 (1275), he returned to Iyo. After saving living beings bound

by karma, he proselytized throughout the country and in Kenji 2 (1276) once again

traveled to Iyo. Then he crossed over to Kyushu and visited Shodatsu at Dazaifu.

It is said that he engaged in discussions of the Dharma even when in the bath. Shodatsu

asked, “How is it that you do not advocate ten recitations, and instead advocate just one?”

Ippen replied by explaining the theory of the “nonduality of ten and one.”

Shodatsu, who exclaimed in wonder at this teaching, said, “If this is the case, then I wish

to be granted one hundred repetitions,” and was then granted one hundred repetitions

of the nembutsu.

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遊行回国

 

新宮を出た一遍は、京をめぐり西海道を経て建治元年(一二七五)秋伊予へ帰った。有縁の衆生を度した後、国中あまねく勧進して翌二年(一二七六)再び伊予を訪れた。その後九州へ渡り、大宰府に聖達を訪ねて、風呂の中で法談をかわしたという。聖達が「いかに十念をばすゝめずして、一遍をばすゝめ給ふぞ」と問うたので、一遍は「十一不二」の論理を説明した。この説教を聞き感嘆した聖達は「さらば我は百遍うけむ」といい、念仏百遍をうけたと伝えている。