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    Self-power (jiriki) and other-power (tariki) are non-dual... — Carmelics
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    Self-power (jiriki) and other-power (tariki) are non-dual aspects of a single movement toward enlightenment.

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    • 1.One's own striving is itself the expression of the Buddha's grace helping the practitioner toward enlightenment.
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    • 2.The practitioner must appropriate the Buddha's grace through self-power, not merely rely on other-power passively.
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    • 3.The two movements — the Buddha's compassionate descent and the practitioner's upward striving — are aspects of one unified movement.
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    • 1.Shinran's Pure Land theology explicitly identifies jiriki as the fundamental obstacle to tariki, not its complement.
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    • 2.If self-power striving is itself grace-enabled, the practitioner cannot distinguish genuine faith from self-deception about their own merit.
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    • 3.A non-dual framework dissolves the soteriological urgency that makes other-power distinctive as a path for beings incapable of self-cultivation.
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    • 1.Kant's antinomy of freedom demonstrates that attributing an act simultaneously to autonomous self-causation and external causation generates logical contradiction.
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    • 2.Describing one movement as simultaneously self-powered and other-powered violates the principle of sufficient reason unless the two causes are numerically identical.
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    The realization of enlightenment cannot be attained on one’s own. For one is not a substantial, i.e., ontologically independent, being to begin with. As the cosmos itself is a web of interdependently originating thing-events, nothing can stand alone to claim complete self-sufficiency. The same interdependency that obtains horizontally between the constituents of the cosmos also obtains vertically. That is, the whole is what it is in virtue of its parts just as the parts are what they are in part
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