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		<title>Notes on &#8216;Keep Me in Your Heart a While&#8217; by Dosho Port</title>
		<link>http://jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/notes-on-keep-me-in-your-heart-a-while-by-dosho-port/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri
by Dosho Port (2008)
Shinshujin&#8217;s Notes:
This recent book has become one of my favourite modern Zen texts.  In fact if I were to recommend two 20th/21st century books on Zen I would offer this one for its honest appraisal of Zen training and Kosho [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=3556&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zazen Notes #11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about this before but to re-cap &#8230; From 2000 to early 2002, the last year over-lapping with my beginning to attend a Jodo Shinshu temple, I sat zazen once a week with a local Soto group affiliated to a well-known Zen Order and also sat zazen at home everyday. 
Unfortunately for a variety of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=3531&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of Nenbutsu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while will know that several of us have a great appreciation for the late Zen teacher Ven. Kosho Uchiyama; both for his lucid zazen instructions and his appreciation of the nembutsu.  As such I was interested to find the following on the web:
The Heart of Nenbutsu
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		<title>Jiriki (Self-power)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to [some] good is practicable only after the eradication of evil.  This is like trying to dispell darkness first in order to let the light in.&#8221;
- Gojun Shichiri (quoted in D. T. Suzuki&#8217;s Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism, Shinshu Otaniha, 1973)
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		<title>&#8220;Is just hearing enough?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. &#8220;Is just hearing enough?&#8221;
A. &#8220;Yes.&#8221;
Q. &#8220;Even then, I have fears as to my really hearing it.  Did I hear or not?  What shall I do with this?&#8221;
A. &#8220;That is not hearing but thinking.  No thinking is needed here.  Faith is awakened by hearing.  Don&#8217;t be caught here.&#8221;
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		<title>&#8220;Yes&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To hear the call of Amida, or believe in his Original Vows, ultimately comes to utter this one word, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; in response.  Don&#8217;t say &#8220;but,&#8221; and get away from the embrace of merciful Amida.&#8221;
- Gojun Shichiri (quoted in D. T. Suzuki&#8217;s Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism, Shinshu Otaniha, 1973)
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		<title>The Two Modes of Dharmakaya: Distinguishable not Separate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my recent post, about the relationship between formlessness and form, the following quotation from D. T. Suzuki&#8217;s translation of Shinran Shonin&#8217;s Kyogyoshinsho is very pertinent:
Two modes are distinguishable in the Dharmakaya, whose manifestations are Buddhas and bodhisattvas. One mode is the Dharmakaya as Dharma-in-itself; the other is the Dharmakaya in its manifested form. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=3506&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Faith&#8217; by Keiji Nishitani</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from &#8216;Religion and Nothingness&#8217;)

&#8220;In ordinary usage, faith is an act performed by the self, immanent in the self, and arising from within the self as an intentionality toward some object. It is the same even when we speak of believing in oneself. In all its forms, belief does not depart from the field of consciousness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=34&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Amida is a phase of shunyata itself&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there are roughly two types of thinking regarding &#8216;birth in the Pure Land&#8217;, one of which is to place it in linear time after death as being &#8216;born&#8217; into a place called the &#8216;Pure Land&#8217; which is generally conceived as being a substantial entity; the other is to equate Amida and Pure Land with our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=3481&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Link: &#8220;you gotta be sick of your self&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/link-you-gotta-be-sick-of-your-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shinshujin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dosho Port&#8217;s teachings, rooted in his encounters with the late Dainin Katagiri, have a strong other-power flavour and are often very pertinent to our own Jodo Shinshu path.   His latest post on the flaws in &#8220;my way&#8221; Dharma offers sound direction to all way-seekers.  Extract:
&#8220;Our way.&#8221; &#8230; I see quite a lot of air being used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com&blog=1401163&post=3476&subd=jodoshinshubuddhism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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