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zen buddhism chapter 5 and 6 Flashcards

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sword

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  • soul of the samurai
  • one with the samurai
  • symbol of loyalty and self-sacrifice
  • destroy anything that opposes the will of its owner and to sacrifice the impulses that arise from the instinct of self-preservation
  • embodiment of life (not death)
  • sword of life and sword of death -> zen master must know when and how to wield either of them
  • object of inspiration
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when a man is at the parting of the ways between life and death, how should be behave

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  • cut off your dualism and let the one sword stand serenely by itself against the sky
  • one sword -> not life or death -> the sword from which this world of dualities issues and in which they all have their being
  • force of intuitive or instinctual directness
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sword and shinto

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  • connected
  • an object endowed with some mysterious power
  • samurai died with sword and child is born with sword -> most important
  • prevent any evil spirits from entering the room that might interfere with the safety and happiness of the departed or the coming spirit
  • animistic way of thinking
  • sacred sword
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sword making

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-swordsmith invokes the aid of the guardian god
-in order to invite him -> surrounds sword with consecrated ropes -> excludes evil spirits
-during ceremony of ablution and dons the ceremonial dress
-while striking the iron bar and giving it baths of fire and water -> smith and helper are most intensified state of mind
-exert themselves to the limit of their powers, mental, physical, and spiritual
-sword is a true work of art
-reflects something deeply appealing to the soul of the people
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masamune

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-swordsmith
-tests the sharpness of sword by placing it in river and watched how every leaf that met the blade was cut
-leaves avoided the masamune sword -> wasnt made to kill -> humane
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mushin

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  • no mind
  • going beyond the dualism of all forms of life and death, good and evil, being and non-being
  • all arts merge into zen
  • unconscious
  • dont think anything
  • dont calculate/plan ahead
  • automaton
  • unconsciously conscious or consciously unconscious
  • mind is flowing and filling every corner -> fluid -> no limit
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2 swords

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  • longer sword is for attack and defense
  • short sword for self-destruction when necessary
  • train himself with the utmost zeal in the art of swordsmanship
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suki

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  • one second you can lose your life or win your life
  • space between 2 objects where something else can enter
  • you cannot afford for your mind to “stop”
  • you must relax and have tension at the same time
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ignorance (avidya)

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-means the absense of enlightenment
-delusion
-abiding stage- the point where the mind stops to abide
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tomaru

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  • stopping or abiding
  • delusion
  • mind attaches itself to any object it encounters
  • the mind stops with one object instead of flowing from one object to another
  • ex. if the sword comes toward you you may strive to follow it but as soon as you do this you arnt a master of yourself and you will be beaten
  • this is called stopping
  • do not let your mind “stop”
  • to not calculate
  • the sword meant to kill you will become your own and fall on your opponent if you avoid this
  • when your mind is concerned with the sword you become your own captive
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enlightened monk vs. samurai

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  • enlightened monk is free from thinking -> empty

- free from yourself ->

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prajna immovable

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  • possessed by all buddhas
  • transcendental wisdom flowing through the relativity of things
  • the mind itself endowed with infinite motilities
  • mind capable of infinite movements
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Fudo myoo

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  • buddhist god, the immovable
  • symbolic protector of buddhism-incarnating prajna immovable for us sentient beings
  • destroyer of delusion
  • immovability both of mind and body
  • not to move means not to stop with an object (tomaru)
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Kwannon nosatsu (tomaru)

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  • 1,000 arms
  • each holding different instruments
  • if his mind stops with the use of a bow (for example) -> all the other arms will be of no use
  • you should use arms without stopping -> one after another -> efficient
  • we become kwannons when we understand this
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tree (tomaru)

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  • looking at a tree you see that one leaf if red
  • your mind stops with this leaf
  • you see one leaf and fail to see other leaves of the tree
  • you must look at the tree without any preconceived ideas
  • if your mind looks without stopping you can see hundreds of 1000s of leaves
  • we are kwannons when we understand this
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highest stage of teaching

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-body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind

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2 ways of training

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  • spritual and practical
  • spiritual-how one gives up ones own ignorance and affects and attains to no-mind-ness
  • practical training is also important!
  • 5 ways of posing the body
  • technique and principle
  • spiritual training and practical
  • must have both…-> ri (li) and ji (shih)
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kokoro tomuna

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-not to have the mind stopped

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kokoro tomuna

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-not to have the mind stopped

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where is the mind

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  • better to keep mind in lower part of abdomen -> enable you to adjust oneself in accordance with the shifting of the situation from moment to moment
  • BUT if you try to keep the mind in the lower region of the abdomen -> you are limiting it from moving freely
  • you should let it fill up your whole body -> flow
  • when you do this you can use your hands when you need them and your legs when you need them -> no time or extra energy will be wasted
  • have no deliberation, no discrimination
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takuans letter to yagyu tajima no kami

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-preserving the absolute fluidity of the mind (kokoro) by keeping it free from intellectual deliberations and affective disturbances of any kind that may arise from ignorance and delusion
suki
-around page 113

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kufu

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  • personal and individualistic
  • develop out of oneself within ones own inner life
  • to strive
  • to wrestle
  • to find the way out
  • remove all the inhibitions there are (intellectual and emotional)
  • bring out what is stored in the unconscious and let it work itself out quite independently of any consciousness
  • involving ones whole person
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honshin

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-original mind

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moshin

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  • delusive mind
  • the mind intellectually and affectively burdened
  • cannot move on from one topic to another without stopped and reflecting on itself -> obstructs native fluidity
  • mind coagulates before making a 2nd move
  • mind becomes conscious of its doing
  • this is suki
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ushin no shin

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conscious mind

  • mind is conscious of its doing -> hesitant -> stopping -> suki
  • opposite of mushin no shin- unconscious mind
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mushin story: woodcutter

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  • woodcutter is cutting wood
  • satori (animal) appears
  • animal reads the woodcutters mind
  • woodcutter goes back to chopping wood and going into mushin -> the blade falls off the ax and kills the animal
  • the telepathic animal couldnt read the mushin mind
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egolessness/muga or non-atman

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  • letting you natural faculties act in a consciousness free from thoughts, reflections, or affections of any kind
  • cherish no egoistic thoughts, no consciousness of you own attainments
  • spirit of sabi-shiori
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if you understand emptiness

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-you are enlightened

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angya

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  • monks travel on foot to experience hardship
  • for swordsmen its called musha-shugyo- training in warriorship
  • this is a form of training
30
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emptiness

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  • absolute
  • doesnt change
  • eternal
  • enlightenment
  • mind fasting
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kara

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  • rakusu
  • symbol of monkhood
  • carried by zen monk over chest
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enlightenment

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-you must seek inside yourself not outside

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perfect swordsman

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  • avoids quarreling or fighting

- always alert -> not indulging in thinking

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nirvana

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  • samsara (death) is to be transcended
  • birth
  • attained only when it is not desired
  • unconsciously conscious
  • consciously unconscious
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myo or myoyu

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  • something defying the challenge of mans thinking powers
  • mode of activity which comes directly out of ones inmost self without being intercepted by the dichotomous intellect
  • direct act
  • immediate
  • impulse
  • important in art
  • = freedom = creativity
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thought

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  • there should be no thought concerning life, death, or nirvana
  • limits it
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swordsman struggle

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  • between life and death
  • chose a solution to the problem and go with it without thinking of consequences
  • dualistic idea
  • no positive or negative thought
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buddhist stuggle

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-on the plane of conceptualism
-nirvana
-samsara
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sunyata

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  • state of emptiness
  • no attachment
  • no inhibitions
  • no stoppages
  • fluidity
  • no consciousness
40
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ego

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  • without ego there is no moral responsibility but the divine transcends morality
  • ego makes it impossible to accept everything that confronts us
  • must have no ego rigidity to wield the sword that gives life instead of taking it
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sword: death

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  • swordsman has no desire to kill
  • the enemy appears to make himself the victim
  • the sword kills
  • the sword acquires a soul in a spiritually skilled swordsman -> Art
  • the sword is an extension of the arm
  • mind and body move together with no influence from thought, intellect, or emotion
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heijo-shin

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  • mind that is no mind is the last stage in the art of swordsplay
  • to be of no mind (mushin) means the everyday mind (heijo-shin)
  • when this is attained everything goes well
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fudo-shin

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  • immovable mind
  • the moon reflection in the river -> river always moving but the moon is constant
  • mind moves in response to 10,000 situations but remained ever the same
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mind fasting (shin-sai)

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  • highly unified state of consciousness
  • in hearing do not use the ear -> use the mind (kokoro, hsin) -> do not use the mind but ch’i (spirit)
  • when you use the ear the hearing stops there and the mind cannot go further than the symbol
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ch’i

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  • spirit
  • something empty and waiting
  • seeing and hearing with ch’i -> idea is to trenscend the centripetence of the ego-consciousness for as long as there is one thought of it in the mind
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metaphysics

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-working of tao and the harmonious cooperation of yin and yang in their cosmological movements

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tao

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  • truth
  • above learning but one cannot reach tao without learning
  • tao is reached when ones mind is entirely emptied of delusive thoughts and intriguing feelings
  • when you have realized tao you have knowledge of all things
  • knowledge is meant to be forgotten
  • he is the learning itself -> no separation of learner and learning
  • learning gained is learning lost
  • moves automatically with no conscious efforts
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meigin

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  • genius
  • mind is perfectly unaware of its own working with the self vanishing nowhere anybody knows
  • art of swordsmanship attains perfection
49
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idea

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  • becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it
  • diseases (obsessions) that swordsman has to get rid of:
  • desire for victory
  • desire to resort to technical cunning
  • desire to display all that he has learned
  • desire to overawe the enemy
  • desire to play a passible role
  • desire to get rid of whatever disease he is likely to be infected with
  • when any of the desires/ideas obsesses the swordsman he becomes it slave and loses freedom
  • desire to be free from desire is desire itself
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kufu

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  • discipline or training
  • when enough discipline is accumulated they will be removed by themselves without ones being conscious of it
  • escape desire without the desire to escape
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spirit

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  • controlling agent of our existence
  • without spirit of tree there is no bloom
  • sword is a symbol if the invisible spirit keeping the mind, body, and limbs in full activity
52
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sword of taia

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-possessed by everyone

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