RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Nianfo, Svabhava, Jiriki
23 Jan 2016
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When the thought of chanting the nembutsu emerges from deep within, having entrusted ourselves to the inconceivable power of amida"s vow, in that very moment we are grasped never to be abandoned : Naturalness jines honi, becoming so by itself (cid:1) (cid:1) Emptiness: the absence of svabhava: own-being , a term that (cid:1) means something existing though its own power rather than that of another, possessinf an invariant and inalienable . (cid:1) (cid:1) Lecture 22, march 13th self-power vs other power (amida bouddha) want to do the practice in the no self. I am made to live by amida things get reversed at a moment in the practice. !until this, jiriki, then, they live by amida, no more complicated personal decision. Shinkin thre entrusting : not an intellectual concept but. A think is a thing and not another thing. A thing is another thing, all is one. Zen: the great death : daishi ichiban.
