many faces of reality
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Summary
We can’t hold reality as an image, so Buddhism says we need many faces, many different viewpoints, to look at it. That is why Master Dogen often denies something and affirms it in the next paragraph or chapter: we need more than one viewpoint to understand reality.
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Buddhism says we need many faces to look at reality, because we can’t hold reality as an image
1Introductions 5: Clear Explanation for Zazen Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters
he affirms it, because we need more than one viewpoint to understand reality
2Bussho 1: Fully Manifesting Existence Summer 2004 — Bussho
we need to accept lots of different viewpoints on reality
3MMK 2: Non-Separation Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika