Kegon Kozaneba Summary

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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. - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/毘盧遮那仏

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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

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