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I effort: self-power and other-power

Published: Nov. 21, 2014, noon

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This talk continues Shohaku Okumura Roshi\\u2019s commentary on the modern classic Opening The Hand of Thought written by his teacher Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. (Section 4, p.66) Okumura Roshi describes two categories of Buddhism: ji riki (self-power) and ta riki (other-power). Traditionally, Zen is considered to be \\u201cself-power\\u201d and Pure Land Buddhism to be \\u201cother-power,\\u201d but Uchiyama Roshi says that our practice of zazen is before separation between self-power and other-power. This talk was originally given at Sanshinji in Bloomington, IN on November 14, 2010.


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