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Living Dharma Seminar III, featuring Dr. Nobuo Haneda |
 | | Haneda then made the key point that Rev. Kiyozawa’s life paralleled Shinran Shonin’s life in that Kiyozawa’s ascetic experiments represented the same kind of "self-power" effort as Shinran’s 20 year-effort on Mt. Hiei (Shinran practiced Tendai Buddhism, which emphasizes practices that are similar to those of the Theravada path, for 20 years). |
| | Haneda said that this way of looking at life is similar to the philosopher Hegel’s concept of "dialectics." This concept proposed that there was the "thesis," which represents the secular, the "antithesis," which represents the religious, and the "synthesis," which represents the middle path. |
| | Haneda then drew on the board a diagram which pictured a man standing on a "flatland," which he called "point A"—a small raised plateau which is has a "precipice" or steep cliff at one end. |
| www.livingdharma.org /Living.Dharma.Articles/L.D.Seminar3-02.html (4200 words) |
