- As for the blog's name: -


I was @ Gustav Ericsson's sight, - Anzenkai, and I was looking at Nishijima Roshi’s calligraphies over there. Particularly there is one - "seki shin hen pen" - about which Gustav has earlier said in a blog post that it is Nishijima's favorite phrase from Master Dogen.

This seemed strange to me. It was not what I would expect Nishijima Roshi's favorite phrase to be. It seemed it could be some Rinzai master's favorite quote, - it seems to express continuous and constant sincerity, - but it did not seem to fit my view of the way Nishijima Roshi saw things.

So - consequently - I tried to think what would I expect his favorite quote to be. But all phrases I could think of did not seem to fit just what I might have had in mind.

So I tried to come up with what I would see it as, - and what I have come up with - is - "this universe out here".

- And this seems to be the right name for this blog here too.


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Sameness

 When asking if two things are the same, - there is the question of what you call “the same”. Ultimately, - since one thing which is not one other second thing, - is not that second thing - it is not the same as it. - No two things can be the same since initially by what you naturally define as “same” you want these two things to be the same in everything, - which practically includes the fact that one of them is not the other one.

- Even if in any and every other aspect there will not be any difference, - the very fact that one thing is one thing and the other one is another, - not the first one mentioned, - is a difference in itself.

Beside that we better remember, as it seems, - that we are talking about phenomenal things. Had we been discussing the Reality itself, - there is only one, - so there is nothing to compare it to. All else is said to be delusion. - The phenomenal world. The phenomenal worlds. - Where nothing is perfect and nothing is complete, - as far as I understand. All is partial, - unless you just observe everything, - as it seems. – But if we still wish to compare things there, - the above will apply, - we can only compare choosing certain particular characters, - not otherwise. Though otherwise we know too, - apparently, - that no two things will ever match completely, - otherwise their past and future have to match too, - and it will not be easy to expect this.

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