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... Nishitani’s project of “overcoming nihilism by way of passing through nihilism,” ... Whereas Nietzsche primarily sought to affirm the ubiquity of the will to power after the death of God, Nishitani claims that Zen’s “Great Death” takes one beyond all standpoints of will to a rebirth of non-egoistic freedom and compassion.
— Dec 30, 2018 09:29PM
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Heidegger’s “conversation on a country path” in which a scientist, a scholar, and a guide converse their way down a path toward “releasement” as the authentic way of being human; and ... the classic Zen text, The Ten Ox-herding Pictures, which illustrates and comments on a search for the elusive “Ox” that represents one’s true self or “Buddha nature”—a provisional image which is itself cast aside along the path...
— Dec 31, 2018 12:03AM
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On Theology, Being, Ground: “The Christian philosopher Jean-Luc Marion and the Buddhist philosopher Nishida, as vast as their diferences may be, both have proposed alternatives to thinking of God in terms of being, and being in terms of ground.”
— Dec 30, 2018 11:44PM
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[Ueda’s self] exists in “twofold being-in-the-world.” ... the self exists simultaneously in a concrete, contingent place, as well as in the “infnite openness of Nothingness,” Ueda’s phenomenology of the self is both a phenomenology of the life-world and paradoxically a phenomenology of “that which does not appear”—namely, the all-embracing place of emptiness or absolute nothingness.
— Dec 30, 2018 10:09PM
