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Probably in the mildness of the weather, the Words Love Japanese character of the landscape, and the rapid and conspicuous change of seasons.
The sects even vied in claiming the superiority of their respective sutras (or place because they were most suited to the corruption of the age. And in the way of Japanese Love Words and earth there is no death, but life, there is no divergence, but convergence. The loving concern with the particularities of nature is familiar to us through Japanese art it is just as marked first Japanese poetry. It appears in-modern way as well. If the poems on nature were to be removed from the collections of Japanese poems, how many would end left? When life thus evolves, without Love into eternity, it may rightly be said that no one dies.
- Again and again Dogen emphasizes that the Japanese reality is not static but dynamic.
- The first thousand years is called the Period of Words Perfect Law, when the religion of the Buddha was genuinely and perfectly practiced.
- In other places Dogen says: Death ask life are the very life of the Buddha, and These mountains, rivers and earth are all the See of Buddhahood.
- In Dogen's unique philosophy of time, all being is time'' (3l) the ever-changing, incessant temporal flux is see with ultimate Being itself.
- To Jinsai, the true reality of both earth and heaven is strongly in a way which we would call evolutionary.
Nichiren evaluates doctrines by five standards, all specific character. Though the of ancestors may perish, their spirits are inherited by their posterity, whose spirits are again inherited by their own posterity. Man feels congenial to his world, has no grudge against it. The color of the mountains is no than his pure chaste body. In the of Master Muju, Mountains, rivers, earth, there is not a thing that is not real.
- These ideas took root in Japan.
- Typical are the essays in the Pillow Book (Makura no Soshi), which describes the beauties of seasons.
- There is no greater reality, changeless and invisible there is nothing to be apprehended is not already exposed to us.
- Flowers in the spring, cuckoos in the summer And leaves In the autumn.
Nothing but development exists. Is it not time makes these differences? Since Nature appears to be benevolent to man he can love it rather than abhor it.
- If the comes, the Buddhahood will be revealed of itself.
- Time flies more swiftly than an arrow and life is more transient dew.
- The Buddha's way consists in the form that exists and the conditions exist.
- He reads the phrase survey of time as make a survey in terms of time, and phrase if the time comes as the time has already come.
Stillness is the end of motion, evil is the change of good and good is a kind of life, while evil is a kind of death. The impermanence of the person's body and is verily the Buddhahood. And unwise people think that in the world of essence there should be no bloom of flowers and no fall of leaves. All these differences are due, not to Nichiren's own wisdom, but to the virtues in the times.
- The idea, in particular, of the third, degenerate age penetrated deep into the core of doctrines of various sects.
- They reject the quietism of the neo-Confucianists of the Sung period.
- An even better example the poem composed on his deathbed by Ryokan: For a memento of my existence What shall I leave (I need not leave anything)?
- Japanese literature is deeply involved with and treats it with warm affection.
- We see here Dogen's effort to free himself from the idealistic viewpoint by some of the Indian Mahayana Buddhists.
Nature, as it changes in time, is thought of at one with man, not hostile to him. One is reminded of words of the Chinese poet Su Tung-p'o: The voice of the rapids is verily the wide long tongue of the Buddha.
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