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The bodhisattva would revolve the identity-wheel of opposites or contradictions: black and white, dark and bright, same¬ness and difference, the one … - D. T. Suzuki
" "The bodhisattva would revolve the identity-wheel of opposites or contradictions: black and white, dark and bright, same¬ness and difference, the one and the many, finite and infinite, love and hate, friend and foe, etc., etc. While in the midst of clouds and dust, infinitely variegated, the bodhisattva works with his head and face all covered with mud and ashes. Where the utmost confusion of passions rages in its indescribable furies, the bodhisattva lives his life in all its vicissitudes, as the Japanese proverb has it, “seven times rolling up and down, and eight times getting up straight.” He is like the lotus flower in flame, whose color grows brighter and brighter as it goes through the baptism of fire.
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About D. T. Suzuki
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 Suzuki Daisetsu, October 18, 1870 – July 12, 1966) was a writer and professor of . His books and essays on introduced many Westerners to , Shin, and generally. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature.
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鈴木 大拙
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Somebody asked Joshu, “Buddha is the enlightened one and teacher of us all. He is naturally entirely free of all the passions (klesa), is he not?” Joshu said, “No, he is the one who cherishes the greatest of all the passions.” “How is that possible?” “His greatest passion is to save all beings!” Joshu answered
Western people often wonder why the Chinese people have not developed many more sciences and mechanical contriv¬ ances. This is strange, they say, when the Chinese are noted for their discoveries and inventions such as the magnet, gun¬ powder, the wheel, paper, and other things. The principal reason is that the Chinese and other Asiatic peoples love life as it is lived and do not wish to turn it into a means of accomplish¬ ing something else, which would divert the course of living to quite a different channel.
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We may sometimes ignore the claims of reason and rest satisfied, though usually unconsciously, with assertions which are conflicting when critically examined, but we cannot disregard by any means those of the religious sentiment which finds satisfaction only in the very fact of things. If it ever harboured some flagrant contradiction in the name of faith it was because its ever pressing demands had to be met with even at the expense of reason.
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