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Inner Togetherness
Having blogged the quotation below yesterday I happened to be having a chat with K-sensei, who I had no idea read this blog, and he said that he was a little uncomfortable with the passage I had posted. It’s not that the quotation is wrong I think but that taken out of context it could [...]
Zazen & the Bonpu (Rev. Issho Fujita )
A bonpu is a non-Buddha, a person who is not yet enlightened and who is caught up in all sorts of ignorance, foolishness and suffering. When we engage in zazen wholeheartedly, instead of keeping it as an idea, we should never fail to understand that zazen practice is, in a sense, negation or giving up [...]
“Yes”
To hear the call of Amida, or believe in his Original Vows, ultimately comes to utter this one word, “Yes,” in response. Don’t say “but,” and get away from the embrace of merciful Amida.” – Gojun Shichiri (quoted in D. T. Suzuki’s Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism, Shinshu Otaniha, 1973)
Cetanā
Sometime ago I wrote the following: Frequently the difference between shinjin and hakarai is presented as one between faith and reason, or faith and intellect, where hakarai is translated with the cerebral sounding term ‘calculation’. However I think this choice of word is rather misleading. Hakarai is best understood within the traditional Buddhist understanding of [...]
Reason (2)
Recently I came across an interesting essay called The Sangowakuran Incident and its Significance for Engaged Buddhism by Esho Shimazu. Whilst its detailed account of the said controversy is very welcome the aspect of Shimazu’s paper that has stuck most in my mind is the following passage: “In his book [Ianjin Dr. Mitsuyuki Ishida] quotes [...]
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