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Tariki e il bisogno di una guida

Il fatto che in Giappone le pratiche tariki, basate sull’energia dell’altro, il Buddha Amida della Terra Pura, siano molto più sviluppate che in Cina rivela la necessità di una guida, verso la quale professare una fiducia cieca. Ciò conduce al culto delle immagini e al ripudio dell’iconoclastia. Niente da stupirsi che i maestri siano oltremodo riveriti e che i Buddha soggiacciano a una forma di adorazione molto simile a quella dei santi in Occidente. Ikkyu rappresenta un’eccezione. Che «il Buddha sia un bastone per rimuovere gli escrementi», come recita un testo ch’an, suonerebbe blasfemo nella quasi totalità delle scuole buddhiste.

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#Buddhism #faith #religion

Religion is not a prerequisite of morality

The report pointed out that 5.8 billion humans, representing 84% of the worldwide population, identify as religious. “While it is generally accepted that…

Religious Children Are Meaner Than Their Secular Counterparts, Study Finds | World News | The Guardian #morality #faith #religion #God

Substance dualism and religious faith

Because of the failures of Cartesian-style dualism, especially the failure to get an adequate or even coherent account of the relationship between the mind…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #dualism #religion #soul #faith

Advaita means not-two

Over the intervening years I had been surprised by the increasing number of people who were coming to feel the same way. Not only had Buddhism made steady…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #nondualism #Buddhism #self #religion #literature

Being in the world but not of it

Toynbee’s analyses of the various forms such resistance takes are too complex to do more than touch upon here—initially workers tend to be conservative and…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #religion #revolution #drugs #Buddhism #Christianity

Books of the dead treat death as illusion

The Book of Dead Philosophers is not a ‘Book of the Dead’, whether Egyptian or Tibetan. These exquisite ancient writings carefully describe the rituals…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #death #religion #illusion #Buddhism

Levels of reincarnation and the tulkus

‘In Buddhism, everybody is a reincarnation. But there are different levels of reincarnation. Some choose what kind of home they want to be reincarnated in, in…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #reincarnation #Buddhism #religion