Link: Dharmakara’s Prayer

There’s an interesting quote and post over at Ray’s Quaker Faith and Pure Land Practice blog.

A separate point I didn’t pick up in my comment on Ray’s post regards a line from the quotation; “Our experience is of a God who acts, in the lives of individual people, in communities and in the world. ” It called to mind a challenging question asked by the theologian John S. Cobb, Jr. in his contribution to the book Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism:

Can we unequivocally understand Amida’s compassion as directed to the salvation of the world in a corporate way as well as toward the enlightenment of the individuals who make up the whole?’

It’s one of my koans at the moment …