Jōdo Shinshū

In twelfth-century Japan, a monk named Shinran spent twenty years on a mountain trying to earn his way to liberation --- and failed. What he discovered in that failure became one of the most enduring spiritual insights in human history: that the compassion we exhaust ourselves reaching for was already in motion, already extended, already ours. Not because we earned it. Because it was never conditional. Harmonia traces the life of the man who called himself a bald fool, and finds in his honest surrender a word --- tariki --- that names something every human being already knows is true.