- 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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Anthroposophy

There was a post called Anthroposophy. Here I just want to relate to a most central point. - Kalo fundamentally teaches one thing. - There is a thing one can not come to know through senses, - neither through physical senses nor through any other kind of senses, - whatever you might call them, - higher or spiritual or supersensual or supersensible or whatever.

The same is true of other paths as well. (Of course) I mean like Yoga or “Zen”. - Jesus might have called this thing the Father. It is not your father, - it is yourself. - I do not mean to criticize Jesus. - In Indian teaching prior to the Buddha it was called Brahman. - Lao Tse called it Tao. - In book 3 of the Shinji Shobogenzo in story 95 Master Sansho Enen (Sansheng Huiran) refers to its ineffability disagreeing with Master Seppo Gison's (Xuefeng Yicun) attempt to describe things. - It is also referred to as the [one] reality in Buddhism and elsewhere. - It does not matter what you call it. - The point (here) is it can not be known through senses.

- The only way to know it is directly. You yourself, not through anything. - No clairvoyance will get you there.

And why am I writing all this? - It is not possible as long as you have an I. - This is the point.

- The question may be what would Steiner say to this.





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