WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR SANGHA!
“The lotus does not grow in the solid ground of lofty plateaus, but in the muddy ponds of the lowland marshes.” This is an analogy meaning that foolish beings live in the mud of blind passions, but awakened and guided by bodhisattvas, they are able to put forth the blossoms of the Buddha’s perfect enlightenment.
(Collected Works of Shinran, pg. 163)