The framework of Nishida’s argument is that human beings live in a cycle of “head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern)” in which the mind (subjectivity) and the object (objectivity) are one, to “subject-object separation” in which the mind and its object are separated, and then to “subject-object union” in which the separated things become one again. The “head and shoulders (stock price, etc.) chart pattern” is the state in which the mind and its object are separated from each other, and then the mind and its object are separated from each other.
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The separation of “subject” and “object” represented by modern physics. In other words, the antithesis of the idea that objective analysis is possible by separating the “party” from the “observer.
In some Vedic religions, the separation of subject and object may disappear. They are called “being the master of an object and having nothing to do with the object” or “Brahma-ego is the only way out.
- Subject and object - Wikipedia
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Buddhism, especially the Chukan sect (of Shin Buddhism), however, thoroughly rejects the dichotomous view of subject and object as a fallacy. By extension, Zen (Buddhism) of the Tang dynasty in China practiced this view, and their goal was to search for the consciousness of “subject and object” before the arising of the consciousness (thought).
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