--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---You're overly intellectualizing what is a matter of experience.
Hsuan Hua clearly expressed his disapproval of Nichiren's Buddhism
and the Gohonzon, (to me, directly). That was the experience.
His or yours?
What
Don't know much about Nichiren. Dai Gohonzon sounds like a Japanese description
of Kegon's riji-muge (interpenetration and mutual identity between
particulars in Indra's net).
I presume that the true entity is tathata or tathata-garbha if you prefer.
Buddha sees nothing but Buddha. So you do
---You're looking at differences and separations. The Gohonzon
integrates mutually agreeable M-fields and tends to demolish those
getting in the way. True, Hsuan Hua didn't approve of the Gohonzon
which I showed him once. Nichiren's Buddhism was heretical to him.
However, his habit of
Heresy means to personally choose a particular belief in opposition to some
previously established orthodox belief. Heterodoxy is simply to choose all on
one's own without regard to orthodoxy.
Hsuan Hua was observing Chinese Buddhist monastic vinaya. Unless you were a
monk in full
---You're overly intellectualizing what is a matter of experience.
Hsuan Hua clearly expressed his disapproval of Nichiren's Buddhism
and the Gohonzon, (to me, directly). That was the experience. What
does this have to do with pratimoksha vows. Get out of your ivory
tower.
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