Shinto's role in unifying the concepts of life and death
神道が生と死の概念を統一する役割 2023-08-31 23:36 omni.icon
Digest of Research Notes.
The role of Shinto in unifying the concepts of life and death can be seen in relation to the fragment of How to Send Students to War. It is possible that the Shinto view of life and death influenced the idea of introducing a new "one's o" in which students could "Live forever" by dying for "eternal cause". [The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to attain union with the "eternal, infinite, and absolute existence" and thereby "transcend the world of birth and death. This is the thought of Dushun, the founder of the Kegon sect, which was organized by the fourth patriarch Cheng Kuan, who added the "circumstance" of the lost world to the four categories.
In terms of beliefs, the Sokushin Seibutsu philosophy has been adopted. Sokushin Seibutsu is the idea that it is possible to attain enlightenment in this life in this body. However, enlightenment is not a dichotomy between "attained" and "not attained," but rather, the path of seeking enlightenment must continue until death. [To live is to create." Creation is to bring disparate and heterogeneous things together in a meaningful way, to bring order to them. Man is the creative agent, and to live is to create an orderly flow in chaos.
extra info
TITLES: ["How to Send Students to War"], "Huayan Kozaneba Summary", "On Faith", "Introduction to Method", ""Experiential Process and the Creation of Meaning" Study Group 4", "The Process of What "Thinking" is", "To Live is to Create"]
generated: 2023-08-31 23:36
previous notes
Shinto's role in unifying the concepts of life and death
---
This page is auto-translated from /nishio/神道が生と死の概念を統一する役割 using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I'm very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.