Kegon Kozaneba Summary
Summary of reading [The Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through the Fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi
A byproduct of an experiment in using Kozaneba to "help people understand difficult texts by breaking them down" (Kozaneba: 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, and absolute existence" is called the Dharma, the Way, the Emptiness, the Truth, the "True Truth," the "middle way of non-existence," the "Birshana Buddha in the Lotus World," and so on.
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The Zhuangzi, a traditional Chinese philosophy, and the Hua Yan Sutra, which originated in Indian Buddhism, were fused in China to form the Hua Yan philosophy, which began with the Hua Yan school of Buddhism.
The Kegon Sutra focused only on the "lotus storehouse world," a hyper-temporal-spatial dimension.
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 patriarch, Cho-kwan, organized the ideas of Dushun, the founder of the Kegon sect (see above).
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Dushun divided the world of enlightenment into three stages, but Cheng Kuan added the world of lostness, "the world of the Dharma Realm," to the three stages.
This "thing" is an individual thing.
The world in which all individuals are enlightened that they do not have fixed entities is the "world of reason and law.
This "reason" is "eternal, infinite, and absolute existence."
The individual is the manifestation of a branch of reason, and reason becomes matter, matter becomes reason, and reason becomes matter.
The Hannya Sutra is famous for "color equals emptiness and emptiness equals color" (color = matter, emptiness = reason).
This enlightened world is the "Director Unobstructed Dharma Realm."
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 also exist in transition to each other" and that "free from obstacles in the way of one's daily life."
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Note that at the time of the "Director's unhindered Dharma world," all individual "things" include the "self" as well.
If the self as subject and the world as object are opposed to each other, the self as an individual 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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