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Zen buddhism chapter 1 and 2 Flashcards

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action

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  • important
  • disciplinary approach to the experience of enlightenment
  • body is involved
  • awakening in the discipline’s mind a certain consciousness that is attuned to the pulsation of reality
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zen buddhism

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  • concrete
  • so concrete it becomes abstract….?
  • want to reach enlightenment
  • mastering the art of zen buddhism -> enlightenment
  • does not have meaning to outsiders
  • study of yourself -> which is to not study yourself
  • encourage samurai to study
  • paint
  • write
  • theater
  • tea
  • haiku
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zen

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  • product of chinese mind after its contact with indian thought, which was introduced into china through buddhist teachings
  • gives discipline in enlightenment
  • transcendentalism
  • profound philosophy
  • zen is against conceptualization
  • handles the thing itself and not an empty abstraction
  • neglects reading or reciting the sutras or engaging in discourse on abstract subjects
  • experience and expression are one
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enlighenment

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  • eternal life
  • emancipation = freedom
  • zen discipline
  • everything is the same -> sleeping, walking, talking, sitting
  • free from yourself
  • not attached to your ideas/realities
  • react spontaneously
  • thinking is attachment
  • buddhas teachings all starts from enlightenment experience about 2,500 years ago
  • every buddhist is expected to reach enlightenment in this life or future
  • satori (in chinese)
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zen monks

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  • democratic
  • willing to employ themselves in all practical ways of life
  • economically minded as well as politically minded
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what will your future life be

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  • let me be a donkey or a horse and work for the villagers

- zen master says

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spontaneity

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  • enlightenment
  • if opponent attacks he can react spontaneously -> samurai
  • paints spontaneously -> painter
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jiyu and jizai

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  • zen is the religion of jiyu and jizai
  • jiyu- self-reliance
  • jizai- self-being
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thinking

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-causes movement

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zen verbalism

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  • expressed the most concrete experience
  • reaches the mind
  • what concerns us is not the word or language but the something hovering around
  • no abstraction
  • concrete
  • unattainable
  • ungraspable
  • deals with living words
  • defining words limits them
  • actional as long as it is concrete and personal
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steps in achieving enlightenment

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  1. master techniques in art

2. zen master trains your heart -> frees it

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examine the living words and not the dead ones

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  • dead one are those that no longer pass directly and concretely and intimately on to the experience
  • dead things are conceptualized -> cut off from living roots
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temple bell

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  • represents the voice of buddha
  • voice of buddha is ringing
  • if you cant get answer go to teacher
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jiyu- self-reliance

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  • grasp a trick by going through a practical situation oneself without outside help
  • do not rely on others not the readings of the sutras and sasstras
  • be your own lamp
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art of burglary

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  • father is burglar and teaches son to be burglar
  • father leaves son behind
  • son escapes by distraction
  • the father taught the son by making him learn for himself
  • demonstrates the futility of verbal instruction and conceptual presentation as far as the experience of enlightenment is concerned
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Tao

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  • nothing more than everyday life experience
  • when youre hungry you eat when youre thirsty you drink
  • abstract
  • transcending our daily experiences
  • nothing to do with actualities of life
  • embedded in all of us
  • cannot define
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swordsman and student example

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  • teacher welcomes student
  • eventually student asks to be taught
  • student does chores
  • student is frustrated
  • teacher agrees to teach
  • teacher hits the student while he doesnt chores
  • one day one the master is cooking the student tried to hit him -> dodge
  • succeeds in awakening in student through growth and experience
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summary of zen

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  • zen discipline consists in attaining enlightenment (satori)
  • satori finds a meaning hitherto hidden in our daily concrete particular experiences -> eating, drinking
  • not something added from the outside -> it is in being itself, in becoming itself, in living itself -> life of kono-mama or sono-mama
  • some may say, there cant be any meaning in mereisness
  • zen doesnt indulge in abstraction or in conceptualization
  • free from intellectual complexities and moralistic attachments of every description
  • no need of things external except the body in which the zen-man is embodied
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isness

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  • freedom from yourself

- cannot define

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bushido

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  • the way of the warrior
  • came from zen buddhism
  • zen walks hand and hand with the spirit of bushido
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affect of zen on japanese

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one-cornerer

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  • art style
  • thrifty brush
  • retaining the least possible number of lines or strokes which go to represent forms on silk or paper
  • aloofness from conventional rules
  • embody beauty in a form of imperfection or even ugliness
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alone

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  • boat in the midst of rippling water
  • boat floats helplessly
  • no mechanics
  • loneliness
  • wabi and sabi
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wabi

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  • appreciation of transcendental aloofness in the midst of multiplicities
  • poverty
  • negatively
  • not to be in the fashionable society of the time
  • to be poor and still feel the presence of something of the highest value (above social position and time)
  • be satisfied with a little hut
  • worshiping poverty
  • not rich in ideas but in thoughts
  • simplicity
  • finding pleasure
  • break through human artificiality
  • no taste for complexities that lie on the surface level
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sabi

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  • beauty of imperfection accompanied by antiquity or primitive uncouthness (may not be actuality)
  • rustic unpretentiousness or archaic imperfection
  • contains inexplicable elements that raise the object in question to the rank of an artistic production
  • utensils in the tearoom
  • loneliness or solitude
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asymmetry

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  • another feature that distinguishes japanese art
  • derived from one-corner style
  • plainest and boldest example is the plan of buddhist architecture (dharma hall, buddha hall)
  • asymmetry is a characteristic of japanese architecture
  • tea room: ceiling is constructed in at least 3 diff ways
  • imperfection
  • inspired by the zen way of looking at individual things as perfect in themselves and also embodying the nature of totality which belong to one at the same time
  • goes towards imbalance
  • grace, solemnity, impressiveness
  • abstract
  • beauty is natural/nature -> imperfect
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informality or approachability

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-describes japanese art

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japanese art

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  • imbalance
  • asymmetry
  • one-corner
  • poverty
  • sabi
  • wabi
  • simplification
  • aloneness
  • cognate ideas
  • informality
  • approachability
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zen monasteries

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  • repositories of learning and art
  • monks always came into contact with foreign cultures -> they were artists, scholars, mystics
  • incorporated into culture
  • close to nature
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Tendai, the shingon, and the Jodo

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  • contributed greatly to imbue the japanese with the spirit of buddhism
  • through iconography -> develop artistic skill for sculpture, color painting, architecture, textile fabrics, and metalwork
  • tendai- too abstract and abstruse for the people
  • shingon- too expensive and complicated for the people
  • Jodo- teaches the pure land where buddha of infinite light is attended by his retinue of bodhisattvas
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welcoming of zen

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  • first disliked by military, aristocratic priesthood, nobility
  • came to japan after shingon and tendai
  • zen first was accepted by Hojo in kamakura
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nature

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  • monks are close and students to nature
  • observe things that go unnoticed
  • observations reflect their philosophy/intuition
  • penetrate into the life itself of the objects that come under the monks observation
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Muso the national teacher

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-fine calligrapher and landscape gardener

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Georges Duthuit

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  • author of chinese mysticism and modern paintings
  • understands the spirit of zen mysticism
  • to become bamboo and forget you are one with it while drawing -> zen of the bamboo and rhythmic movement of the spirit
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One in All and All in One

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  • understood as an expression of absolute pranjna intuition and is not to be conceptually analyzed
  • when we see the moon who know its the moon and that is enough (no further analysis)
  • if you become one (buddha) it mean you become all
  • once you reach enlightenment everything takes place through you
  • one buddha nation
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discrimination

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-what we have when we refuse to accept reality as it is or in its suchness, for we then reflect on it and analyze it into concepts going on with intellection and then landing on a circulatory reasoning

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discrimination

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  • what we have when we refuse to accept reality as it is or in its suchness, for we then reflect on it and analyze it into concepts going on with intellection and then landing on a circulatory reasoning
  • take it as it stand with no argument and be satisfied
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violent discipline

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  • purpose is to help disciples out of the pit which they have dug themselves
  • self-reliance
  • turns them away from logical impasse
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once you free yourself from yourself

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-act spontaneously

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sunyata

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  • emptiness
  • the world of the absolute
  • formless but the fountainhead of all possibilites
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tathata

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  • suchness

- world of particulars

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sumiye

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  • directness, simplicity, movement, spirituality, completeness
  • organic relationship to zen
  • creativity*
  • there must be a spirit of creativity moving over the picture
  • gives the object something living in its own right (not just copy nature)
  • to turn what is possible into an actuality -> creativity
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yakusan meeting with Riko

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  • yakusan- great master
  • riko-governor of province
  • riko sent for yakusan many times but yakusan refused
  • riko went to go see him and he is ignored
  • finally yakusan says why do you evaluate the hearing over the seeing
  • he asks what is tao
  • and the master says the clouds are in the sky and water in the jar
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before you reach enlightenment

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-never talk about unity

45
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understanding the tree

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-you are equal to the tree
-unity
-its not you observing the tree (remove yourself)
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