Bishop Ryokan Ara
Tendai Mission of Hawaii
Hajimekara jigoku ni
Umarete kitato omoeba
Shiku mo hakkumo
Raku no tane
From the beginning if you know that you were born in hell, the four sufferings (of birth, of old age, of illness and of death) and the eight sufferings (the most painful sufferings, the most
powerful pain or mental
afflictions) can be bearable.
