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		<title>Concept of Grace in Eastern Thought?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could actually accumulate some merit by my own power, I would help my dead parents by the grace of Invocation to Amida  (But it is not I who can save me, but Amida himself).  So I should give up the self-concieted attitude of hoping to save myself and others by the grace of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=248&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>not quite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;if you are not quite a saint, he is not quite an idiot&#8230;&#8221; Visistacarita Bodhisattva Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples p. 383<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=234&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>autumn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Weary as I am Of this world, When autumn comes And the moon shines serene, I feel I should like to survive.&#8221; &#8220;Wearied of this world Why should I be? Those once despised by me Today my delight turn out to be.&#8221; Japanese poem Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples p. 372<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=225&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>sweeping discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first lesson of the ascetics of Hinayana Buddhism is to regard one&#8217;s body as impure.  Here the body is regarded as the source of all evils, and as a hindrance to the practice of the Way.  Dogen, however, revised this interpretation.  According to him, contemplation should be realized in one&#8217;s actions in everyday life.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=221&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shamanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shaman,&#8221; from which the word Shamanism derived, means a dancing man. Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples p. 584 paragraph 3<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=216&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humans one with Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He (Donghak) even went further to say that &#8220;human beings are Heaven, and Heaven is Human beings.  Heaven does not exist outside human beings, and human beings do not exist outside Heaven.  Here, Choe identified humankind with Heaven and imbued humanity with the dignity of Heaven.   (Genesis 1.26) He claimed that because humans are one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=214&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning never ceases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyegang said that all affairs in daily life were objects of earnest learning.  If one abandonded these affairs and sought learning elsewhere, one&#8217;s learning would become void.  Through affairs, sin-gi shows the truth of things, achieves knowledge, and nurtures and trains itself.  Without affairs, sin-gi is unable to display its omnipotence.   Korean Philosophy Its tradition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=213&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dasan&#8217;s Theory of Human Nature: View of Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benevolence, righteousness, civility, and wisdom are formed around corresponding conduct.  Therefore, benevolence can be achieved only when one loves others; before this love, benevolence does not exist.  After one commits a good act, one can recognize righteousness.  Before he so acts, righteousness does not exist&#8230;How can it be asserted that benevolence, righteousness, civility, and wisdom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=209&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lord who looks down III (this one may be a bit of a stretch but&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 02:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guanyin, precisely as the sutra promised, was known to be especially adept at rescuing the drowning.  In the midst of a river battle a fat man meditated on the bodhisattva and abandoned ship.  The water was deep and the river was raging, yet the water came up only to his waist, as if he were standing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=208&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lord who looks down II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the chapter, the Buddha explains that if suffering beings single-mindedly call his name, this bodhisattva will rescue them from all forms of harm, including fire, flood, shipwreck, murderers, demons, prison, bandits, and wild animals.  [...] In the centuries after the sutra was translated into Chinese, miracle stories began to circulate about the bodhisattva&#8217;s wondrous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wan2forgetmaseff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=393879&amp;post=202&amp;subd=wan2forgetmaseff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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