Kegon Kozaneba Summary
Summary of reading [The Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through the Fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi
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[The ultimate goal of Buddhism is union with "eternal, infinite, and absolute existence" through the practice of meditation. [The ultimate goal of Buddhism is union with "eternal, infinite, and absolute existence" through the practice of meditation.
This "eternal, infinite, absolute being" is called law, the way (of proper conduct, etc.), hollow, reason, true truth, the middle way of non-existence, Birshana Buddha in the Lotus World, etc.
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The traditional Chinese thought Zhuangzi and Avatamska sutra derived from Indian Buddhism were fused in China to form the Hua Yan philosophy that began with the Hua Yan sect.
The Kegon Sutra focused only on the hyper-temporal-spatial dimension, "the lotus storehouse world."
The Hua Yan philosophy considered our relationship to the world around us
This D. I. Suzuki described as "bringing heavenly glory back to earth."
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The fourth founder Cheng Kuan organized the ideas of the founder of the Kegon sect Dushun (see above).
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Dushun divided the world of enlightenment into three stages, but Cheng Kuan added "circumstance" to the three stages to make four.
This "thing" is [individual (in philosophy)
[The enlightened world, in which "all individuals have no fixed reality," is called "the realm of thought.
This "reason" is "eternal, infinite, absolute existence."
[The individual thing is a branch of reason, and reason becomes a thing, and a thing becomes reason.
In the Prajnaparamita Sutra, "emptiness is form, emptiness is color" is famous (color = matter, emptiness = reason).
This enlightened world is "free from obstacles."
Hindrance" is the correct character for "hinder" in the Japanese word for obstacle, meaning "to hinder" or "to hinder.
Based on the above enlightenment, I came back to the world of "things" and realized that "all individuals are also shifting from one another" and "free from obstacles in the way of one's daily life."
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Note that at the point of "Director Unobstructed Dharma Realm," all individual "things" include "self" as well.
If the self as subject and the world as object are opposed to each other, the individual self and "reason" cannot be united.
the unity of master and guest
from Kozaneba: The Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through the Fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi
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