Attribuée à Shinran
«"Though my life come to its end and I return to the Pure Land, I shall come back again and again like the waves of Waka bay. When you are alone and rejoice, think that there are two; when you are two and rejoice, think that there are three: that other one is Shinran."»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Shinran
This is the so-called Gorinmatsu no gosho ("Deathbed Writing"), dated the 11th month of 1262 and signed "Gutoku Shinran, fully ninety years old". Widespread in popular piety, scholarship regards it as apocryphal: it appears neither in the early collections of his writings nor in Kakunyo's biography. It was transmitted in later compilations, such as Shimaji Daitō's Seiten (1928).
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de Shinran
«I, Shaku Shinran, the foolish bald-headed one, in the year of the metal rooster of the Kennin era [1201], abandoned the sundry practices and took refuge in the Primal Vow.»
Kyōgyōshinshō, epílogo del capítulo sobre los budas y tierras transformados. Traducción propia.
«Thus I am now neither a monk nor a layman. For this reason I have taken the character toku, "bald", as my surname.»
Kyōgyōshinshō, epílogo, sobre el destierro de 1207 (lectura japonesa tradicional del texto chino).
«I take refuge in the Tathāgata of Immeasurable Life; I entrust myself to the Inconceivable Light.»
Shōshinge, primeros versos.