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    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Self-power (jiriki) and other-power (tariki) are non-dual aspects of a single movement toward enlightenment.

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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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    • 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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