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Soga Ryōjin: “I am neither of the self-power school nor of the other-power school.”
The last of the extracts of Soga Ryōjin’s work that I noted down from the Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook: The people of the ‘self-power’ schools pride themselves exclusively on the subjective Tathāgata and negate the objective Tathāgata; the people of the ‘other-power’ school’ cling one-sidedly to an objective Tathāgata, and fall into despair. This is because [...]
Soga Ryōjin: Shakyamuni-centred Buddhism is a slave idea
Another extract from the Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook with a slightly Nietzschean flavour. See the links at the end of this post for more context about Soga Ryōjin’s understanding of Dharmakara Bodhisattva. “Is not my access to a historical person like Shakyamuni extremely indirect in comparison with the myriad buddhas who are more directly part of my experience? …. [...]
Soga Ryojin – “bringing to life myriad buddhas everywhere”
A while ago Wamae kindly drew our attention to the great resource that is Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook published by the University of Hawaii Press. After a long wait mine finally arrived last week and I’ve just started to dip into it. One great delight has been finding some new translations of work by my [...]
Objectless Devotion (More on Kabir)
This week I’ve been immersing myself in the works of Kabir. Actually I should perhaps say ‘Kabirs’ as people have been piously elaborating the Kabir Canon over the centuries to the extent that it is apparently almost impossible to tell which works are ‘original’ and which are not. However that’s a matter that I’ll leave [...]
Called to sentience
I was away on retreat at the temple from Friday to Sunday. For a variety of reasons it was a particularly intensely focused one and as a result many problems came to the surface. One particularly complex situation enmeshed a number of Dharma friends, including myself, in a heated exchange of views which left me [...]
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