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    For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, a shi... — Carmelics
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    For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, a shift or transformation of awareness must emerge in beings

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    • 1.Human understanding is constantly subject to the distortions of self-attachment
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    • 2.Authentic grasp of the teaching requires overcoming the distortions of ordinary awareness
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    • 1.Shinran's own doctrine of tariki (other-power) explicitly rejects self-cultivated transformation as a precondition for salvific understanding.
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    • 2.If Amida's vow operates unconditionally regardless of the practitioner's mental state, requiring an antecedent shift contradicts the soteriological structure of Pure Land itself.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that authentic grasp of a teaching is demonstrated through correct application, not through privileged inner states.
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    • 2.A criterion of authentic understanding that appeals to ineffable shifts of awareness is epistemically inaccessible and cannot serve as a meaningful standard of doctrinal comprehension.
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    Issues of hermeneutics are central to the Japanese Pure Land tradition because of the breach it asserts between the ordinary awareness of beings and the enlightened wisdom-compassion of the Buddha, which is the source and ultimate content of the teaching. This is not, of course, a problem limited to the Pure Land tradition, but has engaged Buddhist tradition from the time of Sakyamuni. Nevertheless, communicating its teaching raises special difficulties for Hōnen’s Pure Land thought because of i
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