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zen buddhism 7, 8 & 9 Flashcards

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satori

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  • satori=zen
  • no zen without satori
  • gain an inner epxerience which is to take place in the deepest reccesses of ones being
  • living truth is reached and intuitively grasped (not conceptually)
  • supreme moment in life of an artist
  • become conscious of the unconscious (mushin) -> free to express
  • cant be taught
  • penetrate into the truth of the buddhist teaching concerning the reality of things or the mystery and meaning of life
  • when satori artistically expresses itself it produces works vibrating with spiritual rhythm (ki-in) ehibiting myo or giving a glimpse into the unfathomable yugen
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shin-in or ki-in

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  • spiritual rhythm
  • taking hold of which constitutes of satori
  • mystery beyond intellectual analysis
  • myo
  • every art has mystery
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yugen

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  • attain a glimpse of things eternal in the world of constant changes
  • look into the secrets of reality
  • myo
  • where satori flashes there is tapping of creative energy where creative energy is felt art breathe myo or yugen
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personal experience

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  • knowledge obtained externally is not ur own
  • knowledge obtained internall is
  • inner being opens up its deep secrets only when he has exhausted everything belonging to his intellect of his conscious deliberations
  • genuis is born not made
  • must go through serious severe discipling
  • everything has genius and demands awakening -> satori
  • satori is reaching when a man is at the end of its resources
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satori example

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  • spear was invented with crescent shaped horn branching out at the middle part of spearhead
  • expert spearmaker wanted to reach a state of mind in perfect unification with spear -> samadhi (sammai)
  • one day he sees reflection of crescent moon crossing his spearhead in the pond
  • breaking through his dualistic consciousness
  • realization
  • became a meijin of his art
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meijin

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  • man who is more than an expert of a specialist
  • goes even beyond the highest degree of proficiency in art
  • creative genius
  • original individuality
  • no one is born meijin
  • must experience infinitely painstaking discipline
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chiyo: haiku

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  • wanted to improve and called on master
  • master kept giving subject and they were rejected
  • chiyo stayed up all night writing the cuckoo haiku -> good bc communicated authors genuine inner feeling about the hototogisu
  • no calculated feelings
  • no ego
  • open up chiyos unconscious
  • inner felling
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sammai or samadhi

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  • state of one-pointedness
  • concentration
  • state is realized only when the artist with his knowledge of all the technicality is still sincerely and loyally looking for a complete mastery of the art
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genuis

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  • you must be loyal, sincere, whole hearted -> in order to be original, creative, master
  • no selfish interest
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waka

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5, 7, 5, 7, 7

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haiku

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  • shortest poem
  • 17 syllables
  • 5, 7, 5
  • not the product of intellection
  • brief but significant
  • our last words are short
  • most empty your heart
  • expression of a temporary enlightenment
  • must have season
  • buddha nature
  • mystery
  • avoid highly abstract or great ideals -> talk about simple nature
  • it is not tranquil or quietism
  • does not express ideas -> it puts forward images reflecting intuitions
  • directly point to original intuitions -> they are intuitions themselves
  • images become transparent and are immediate expressions of the experience
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kigo

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  • word of the season

- use different flower and different words of the season

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object

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  • use objects to construct and interpret spiritual experiences
  • no such thing as what can be called an absolute objective reality as long we each have inner life
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wind

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  • constantly changing
  • fluid
  • forever
  • moment becomes eternal
  • eternal loneliness
  • youre not alone bc you are with the wind
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art of tea

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  • zen and art of tea are similar in that they are both simple
  • aestheticism of primitive simplicity
  • come closer to nature by sheltering yourself under a thatched roof in a small room that is artistically constructed and furnished
  • connected to zen not only practically but principally in the observance of the spirit that runs through the ceremony itself
  • takes at least one hour
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tea ceremony

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  • entertains visitors or occupants to the monastery
  • observance of the spirit that runs through the ceremony
  • spirits- harmony (wa), reverence (kei), purity (sei) and tranquility (jaku)
  • spirits are essential for zan monastery
  • everyone is equal in the tea room -> reverence
  • must crawl into the tea room
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tea

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  • keeps the mind fresh and vigilant
  • does not intoxicate
  • symbolizes buddhism
  • spiritual discipline
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harmony (a spirit of tea ceremony)

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  • gentleness of spirit (yawaragi)
  • refers to form
  • gentleness is an inward feeling
  • gentle touch, odor, light, sound
  • quietness
  • incense is never strong
  • breeze passing through the needles of the old pine tree harmoniously blend with iron kettle over fire
  • gentleness of spirit -> soft heartedness -> foundation of life on earth
  • social or ethical
  • Confucianism or taosim
  • harmonious relationship with nature
  • harmony is eternity or infinity
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cha-no-yu

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  • spirit of harmonious blending of heaven and earth
  • provides the means for establishing universal peace
  • these days its meeting friends, talking about the world, eating and drinking -> not original intention
  • original intention- gentle tea room in all aspects with nature, no worries, mental dust is wiped off
  • cha- chi
  • yu- hot water
  • tea is always used with hot water
  • used to call the whole art ceremony of making tea
  • how you boil the water (specific temperature), wisk, drinking, tea spoon, kettle
  • boiling water, making tea, and sipping it
  • appreciate the spirit of naturally harmonious blending of heaven and earth and 5 elements
  • cleanse sex senses from contamination -> cleansed of defilement
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sick tea

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-strong tea
-make enough for the amount of people in the room
-offer to the first guest and the first guest offers to second so on…
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cup of tea

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-you can tell the stage of their heart

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garden

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  • roji
  • people wait in the garden until they drink
  • after they drink they go back to garden until they are invited for meal
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sitting

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  • must learn how to sit
  • you must sit on knees
  • you must learn how to not make legs numb
  • a lot of training
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reverence

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  • used in confucian tradition
  • used to understand mindfulness
  • everyone in the tea room is equal
  • sincerity or simplicity of heart
  • when you meet someone in the tea room you are mindful that everyone is equal
  • shogun must be mindful that he is now equal to everyone else
  • everyone is equal in buddhism
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purity

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-the object of discipline in both is to free ones mind from the defilements of the senses

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sabi and wabi

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  • same meaning in the art of tea
  • to appriciate poverty, accept whatever is given, a tranquil, passive mind
  • suggestion of objectivity
  • just to be tranquil or passive is not sabi or wabi -> there is something objective that evokes a mood
  • active aesthetical appreciation of poverty
  • creating or remodeling an environment in a way as to awaken the feeling of wabi or sabi
  • sabi- applies more to individual objects and environment (objective) -> lonliness
  • wabi- living of a life ordinarily associated with poverty of insufficiency or imperfection (subjective, personal) -> being true to yourself -> poverty
  • you describe something has sabi or wabi taste
  • sabi taste- bowl, flower vase, tea utensil
  • appriciation of bad things (numbness, chilliness, obscurity)
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zen and tea

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  • leads to buddhahood and its absolute truth
  • comes directly from and goes deeply down into the roots of existence
  • emptiness is in truth no less than the concreteness of reality itself
  • tea room become a spiritual training station and the art of disciplining technique for the samurai
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entire process of tea

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  • utensils
  • atmosphere
  • frame of mind or spirit which grows out of the combination of all these factors
  • art of cultivating psychosphere or psychic atmosphere, or inner field of consciousness
  • generated within oneself
  • generated by the realization of the spirit of poverty devoid of all forms of dichotomy: subject and object, good and evil, right and wrong, honor and disgrace, body and soul, gain and loss
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poverty

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  • poverty of spirit requires a man that is emptied of god and all his works so that if god wants to act in the soul he must be the place in which he act
  • philosophy of tea is the philosophy of poverty or emptiness
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spirit of tea

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  • aloneness
  • sitting all alone
  • unlike sake which is sipping socially with friends
  • tea is sipped alone in the traditional room, secluded
  • spirit of tea is poverty, solitariness, and absolutism which concretizes the philosophy of emptiness
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tea room description

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  • no decorations except kakemono is hung
  • flower vase with maybe one flower not in full bloom yet
  • simple but thoughtfully designed
  • irregularly inserted windows, multiple ceiling patterns
  • room is divided by a post setting off one corner for tea utensils
  • small square opening for fireplace where hot water is boiling in an artistically shaped iron kettle
  • papered shoji covering the windows admits only soft light
  • burning of gentle incense
  • gentle breeze
  • sounds of trickling water
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harmony and reverence

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  • social or ethical

- Confucianism

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purity

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  • physical and psychological
  • taoism and shintoism
  • hand washing, mouth rinsing
  • heaven is pure bc of its onesness
  • purification of the heart
  • *cleansing and orderliness
  • makes the mind free from unnecessary psychological encumbrances
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tranquility

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  • spiritual or metaphysical
  • taoism and buddhism
  • creates the atmosphere
  • massing of rocks, trickling of water, old pine tree shelter, moss covered stone lanterns, sizzling kettle water
  • meditative frame of mind
  • emanates from ones inner consciousness
  • intimate relationship with reality
  • man and the room becomes one
  • environment has a great deal to do with the molding of a mans character and temperament
  • something man adds to his environment from his inner self
  • realm beyond birth and death which men of penetrating spiritual insight alone are able to inhabit
  • spiritual quality transcending birth and death
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jaku and metsu

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  • mean absolute tranquility

- absolute nothingness

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no-tea

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  • when a man enter into the exquisite realm of no-tea he will realize that no-tea is no other than the great way itself
  • nothing is more beautiful than the virtue of no-tea
  • mysterious variation of the tea
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art of tea

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  • unconscious acts
  • moves like wind
  • there is no best tea
  • automatic
  • no hesitation
  • empty mind
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sabi

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-lonliness

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wabi

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-poverty

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aoi-ua no ue

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  • genjis first wife
  • gets pregnant and rokujo
  • they do ceremony to get rid of rokujo soul haunting
  • name of death
  • 50 mins
  • what you learned from this
  • submit may 3rd
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n-970PxiSI
  • yougne

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