Review

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Review

• Buddhism as Indo-European thought system
• Four noble truths
• Pessimism and kindergarten Buddhism
• Philosophical focus on Nirvana (Buddha-nature)
• Theory develops with politically natural split
• Mahayana and Theravada
• How many can reach Nirvana?

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To China

• Mahayana and Hinayana schism necessary
• Importance for China
• Otherwise elitist, egoistic, mentalist and
  immoral
• Neo-Daoism, Dark Learning and Pure conversation
• Vehicles for metaphysical parallels for Nirvana-?
• "Grade analysis" of sutras
• Insights into paradoxes of Buddhism
• More intellectual, metaphysical for higher level

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Paradoxes

• Paradox of desire
• Leads to Boddhisattva ideal
• With Zen wrinkleall are Buddhaonly lack
  realization
• Like Confucian all are Sages/Daoist all are
  natural
• Yogacara paradoxes
• Individual achievement meaningless
• Karma and consciousness slices
• Paradox of illusion Buddha nature
• Arent the illusions real?

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Madyamika Paradoxes

• Contradiction and eventual silence
• Opposites, Both and, neither nor, repeat
• Daoist facilitated merging?? dark learning
• Being and non-being ? emptiness, Nirvana

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Questions

• Explain Peirces theory of belief and how to fix
  belief.

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All is pure Buddha nature

• How does Madyamika get to Zen result?
• Nothing is real but Buddha Nature
• Ergo Everything that exists is Buddha Nature
• The Illusions are Buddha Nature
• I am Buddha Nature
• Flip side illusions are Buddha-mind
• Storehouse consciousness
• Everything is Buddha-nature

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Chinese Big Schools

• Tian-tai??and Huayen??for theory
• ? Chan for practice!
• ?? Pure Land for populace
• Chan ? from Channa (Dyana meditation)
• Paradox rejects meditation
• Daoist reversal
• meditation everyday consciousness Satori
• Logical development of Madyamika
• Everything is Buddha nature
• You are already Buddha

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Internal Story

• Hui Neng ?? and the Platform Sutra ? ?? ? of the
  6th Patriarch
• Illiterate woodcutter becomes 6th patriarch
• Chinese Buddhist focus on line of transmission
• No words and easy enlightenment
• Southern barbarian(?) hears and enlightened
• Goes to temple

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Never Allowed to Study

• Pounds rice, carries wood
• Poem story Competition of desert v learned
• No dust to wipe from the mirror
• No illusions to dispel
• Kyoto Stories
• Enlightened before he went to the temple
• Not from gradual studyShen Xiu

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Aftermath

• Leaves monastery to return to Guangdong
  mountains!
• Walking Zen
• Throws away the robe signifying status
• Importance to spread of Zen (Chan)
• Cluster of sects concentrated in Southern China
• Cultural area v Northern Barbarians
• Tang idenity
• SouthNorthSuddenGradual enlightenment

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Background

• Cultural revolution against Buddhism
• Foreign, too intellectualized v practical native
  philosophies
• Egalitarian tendencies
• Southern movement
• Internal reform of Buddhism along Daoist lines
• Shift of center of Chinese intellectual culture
• Reassertion of Chinese characteristics and own
  form
• Egalitarian, common sense, practical,

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External Story

• Shen Hui (7th) the real influence
• Vanquished Shen Xiu and Northern ? Chan
• Becomes 7th patriarch
• 6th may be a fiction(?)
• Sudden v. gradual enlightenment
• Cultivation to some goal v
• Give up the goal!

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Paradox of desire Zen style!

• Give up desire for Nirvana first
• Daoist view of desire/distinction
• Give up distinction of meditation/ordinary
  consciousness
• Enlightenment and ordinary practice
• Dualism of Nirvana/Samsara
• Buddhism (period)

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Story of Shen Hui

• Exile and triumphant return
• Story-telling skills
• Politics and money
• Authorship of the Platform Sutra
• Daoist Wang Wei hypothesis

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Great Liberation

• Rush to claim descent from Hui Neng
• Wide variety but Feng's 5 common doctrines
• No (expressible) highest truth
• Spiritual cultivation cannot be cultivated
• In the last resort nothing is gained
• There is nothing much in Buddhist teaching
• In carrying water and chopping wood lies the
  wonderful dao

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Iconoclastic Stories

• Function like koans?
• Burning or spitting on the Buddha
• Just wood (everything is Buddha)
• No temples, praying, bowing, shaving, begging,
  ritual, chanting
• Chan as Buddhist atheism
• Survival in persecutions

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Every Moment Zen

• Umbrella to left or right of clogs?

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Doctor Story

• Zen is care for patients
• A Koan meaningless
• Absorbed in care for patients and lost fear of
  death

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The Strawberry

• Values of eating, drinking, sleeping
• Tiger and strawberry

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Teaching Techniques

• Interview timeanti-metaphysical
• Spit, beat, shout, awaken!
• Koangive up
• Walking Zen
• Never tell too plainly
• Envy of Confucians

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Final Jump

• Modern scientific philosophy
• With a social model of language
• Social cooperation rather than picturing the
  world
• Closer to Chinese/Nietzsche conception
• Reality in the back door
• Science as a dao

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Evolution and Utility

• Some ways of talking dominate, others die out
• Science with the Nietzsche twist
• A social way to survive and thrive
• Science a system of "useful" beliefs
• Natural frameworkalso anti-Plato and
  anti-Descartes

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Belief Analysis

• Habits of action
• not internal pictures
• Practical (practice) focus
• Successful or not utility and survival
• Different interpretations of success
• Peirce, Dewey, James