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  • Hoyu
    Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 2020

    Chanting Ho

    Sorry to disappoint if you were expecting a post on chanting hookers(though that would be a great fit for our recent precepts study!) ops:

    Hi All,

    Seriously though, this was inspired by a Dharma talk which was given by Edward Brown. At the end of the talk he mentions that the Japanese word for Dharma is Ho. And that there is a practice of chanting Ho. With sustain on the O. So it would look like this if I had to use a written example:
    Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(I think you get the idea)
    Has anyone heard of this practice? I tried to search it online but failed to retrieve any information. I'm really curious to know more about it.

    Gassho,
    John
    Ho (Dharma)
    Yu (Hot Water)
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40131

    #2
    Re: Chanting Ho

    Originally posted by JRBrisson
    Sorry to disappoint if you were expecting a post on chanting hookers(though that would be a great fit for our recent precepts study!) ops:

    Hi All,

    Seriously though, this was inspired by a Dharma talk which was given by Edward Brown. At the end of the talk he mentions that the Japanese word for Dharma is Ho. And that there is a practice of chanting Ho. With sustain on the O. So it would look like this if I had to use a written example:
    Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(I think you get the idea)
    Has anyone heard of this practice? I tried to search it online but failed to retrieve any information. I'm really curious to know more about it.

    Gassho,
    John
    Hi John,

    This is the traditional chant during Takuhatsu (Ritual Mendicancy), when the monks in Japan from time to time come down from the mountain to receive coins in their bowls.

    [youtube] [/youtube]

    Yes, "Ho" is Law or Dharma, as in the Laws of the Universe and Buddha's Teachings on such.

    Gassho, Jundo
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Hoyu
      Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 2020

      #3
      Re: Chanting Ho

      Got it. Thank you for the answer Jundo Sensei.

      Gassho,
      John
      Ho (Dharma)
      Yu (Hot Water)

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      • Shokai
        Treeleaf Priest
        • Mar 2009
        • 6393

        #4
        Re: Chanting Ho

        Thanks John and Jundo;
        That is awesome, sorry we missed that. My wife and I did a fair bit of travel through rural Japan and saw a lot of bizarre things but not this ritual. One day close by Chichibu (western Saitama), we turned in to a small lane to see about 25 monkeys running up the road with their daikons(large white radishes) that they had looted from someone's garden. Another time, at an herb garden by Uchi Mado (Okayama), a little old lady asked us to follow her on her bicycle up a hill to get some mame(sweet green beans) which her 92 yr old husband was picking. She went so fast on that bike that our Daihatsu Mira(car model) could hardly keep up. many times we witnessed lone monks standing at street corners but nebver(sic./typo :lol: ) such a group.
        合掌,生開
        gassho, Shokai

        仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

        "Open to life in a benevolent way"

        https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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        • Undo
          Member
          • Jun 2007
          • 495

          #5
          Re: Chanting Ho

          It reminds me of a similar scene in another film.. :wink:

          [youtube] [/youtube]

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          • tedmac
            Member
            • Jun 2010
            • 89

            #6
            Re: Chanting Ho

            I was thinking of this one:
            [youtube] [/youtube]

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            • Taigu
              Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
              • Aug 2008
              • 2710

              #7
              Re: Chanting Ho

              Yes, that's what I chant when walking doing takuhatsu. When i stand, I tend to chant the Hannya Shingyo.
              In Kyoto it is frequent to see a flock of brisk monks chanting HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO like hoping crazy blackbirds , running up streets and standing in front of shops. They generally belong to a great training monastery (Mostly Rinzai in Kyoto) and have the name of the temple they belong to written on the large bamboo hat( Kaza). You also have a bunch of fake monks standing in tourist spots. I often bump into Antaiji priests begging in Sannomiya Kobe during the winter.

              gassho

              Taigu

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              • Seishin the Elder
                Member
                • Oct 2009
                • 521

                #8
                Re: Chanting Ho

                Ah,..so then Santa Claus is really practicing Zen.... "Ho, Ho Ho"


                Gassho,

                Seishin Kyrill

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                • Shugen
                  Treeleaf Unsui
                  • Nov 2007
                  • 4535

                  #9
                  Re: Chanting Ho

                  Originally posted by Kyrillos
                  Ah,..so then Santa Claus is really practicing Zen.... "Ho, Ho Ho"


                  Gassho,

                  Seishin Kyrill

                  Meido Shugen
                  明道 修眼

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