Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path_ A Life of Awakening

Abstract

Author’s Preface; Translator’s Notes; PART ONE: The Shin Buddhist Path; 1: The Fundamental Principles of Buddhism; The Teachings of Gautama Buddha; Buddha’s Final Words; What Is the Buddha?; Aim of Buddhist Teaching; The Development of Buddhism; Buddhism after the Death of Gautama Buddha; Renunciant Buddhism; Householder Buddhism; Formation of the Pure Land Teaching; Hōnen and the Pure Land Teaching; 2: The Pure Land Buddhist Path; Amida Buddha; Immortalization of Gautama Buddha; Amida Buddha as Symbol; Jinen; Wisdom and Compassion; Buddha-Body and Buddha-Name; The Primal Vow of Amida Buddha; Truth and Non-Truth; Buddha’s Enlightenment and Our Enlightenment; Eastern Logic and Western Logic; The Pure Land Buddhist Path; Hearing the Name and Seeing the Buddha; Saying the Name and Hearing the Name; Path of Teaching, Practice, and Realization; 3: The Shin Buddhist Path; The Path that Shinran Walked; Constant Practice of the Nembutsu; Living the Nembutsu; The Nembutsu of “Choice”; The Nembutsu Alone Is True and Real; Nembutsu as “Living”; Continuous Practice of the Nembutsu Every Day; Nembutsu and Shinjin; Nembutsu History; Psychology of the Nembutsu; Nembutsu and Shinjin; PART TWO: Shinjin; 4: The Idea of Shin in Buddhism; Belief and Faith; Secular Notions of Shin: Belief; General Religious Notions of Shin: Faith; Buddhist Notions of Shin; Shin as Prasāda; Shinjin Is Nondualistic and Subjective; Shinjin as the Experience of Awakening; Shinjin as Knowing; Nembutsu and Shinjin; Nembutsu History; Psychology of the Nembutsu; Nembutsu and Shinjin; PART TWO: Shinjin; 4: The Idea of Shin in Buddhism; Belief and Faith; Secular Notions of Shin: Belief; General Religious Notions of Shin: Faith; Buddhist Notions of Shin; Shin as Prasāda; Shinjin Is Nondualistic and Subjective; Shinjin as the Experience of Awakening; Shinjin as Knowing;

5: Shinjin in Shin Buddhism; Shinjin in Shinran’s Thought; Shinjin That Is Wisdom; Shinjin as Awakening; Shinjin as Becoming; Traditional Approaches to Shinjin; Past Interpretations of Shinjin; Objective Interpretations of Shinjin; Subjective Understandings of Shinjin; The Threefold Shinjin of the Primal Vow; Three Minds of the Primal Vow; Three Aspects of Shinjin; 6: Deep Mind, True Mind, and Mind of Aspiration; Deep Mind; Psychological Perspective; One Who Is Falling into Hell; What Is Tariki?; Conditional Arising and Tariki; Religion as Path; True Mind; Philosophical Perspective; Transformation of Life; To Die and Be Born; Mind of Aspiration; Ethical Perspective; Aspiring for Buddhahood to Save Sentient Beings; PART THREE: Shin Buddhist Life; 7: Salvation in Shin Buddhism; Types of Religious Salvation; Shopenhauer’s Theory of Happiness; Three Ways of Seeking Happiness; Salvation as the Fulfillment of Desire; Supernatural Power; Petitionary Prayers and Miracles; Salvation through Self-Control; Will of a Transcendent, Absolute Being; Faith and Self-Modification; Salvation as the Establishment of Personal Subjectivity; Basic Principles of the World and Human Beings; Establishment of a New Personal Subjectivity; 8: Shinjin and Human Life; The Ethics of Shinjin; Shinjin and Society; Ultimate Truth and Worldly Truth; Living in Shinjin; The Starting Point for Understanding Buddhism; The Basic Commonality of All Life; The Teaching “Not to Kill”; The Logic of Harmonious Living; A True Disciple of the Buddha; Soft and Gentle Heart—Firm and Resolute Mind; Eyes that See Beyond the Secular World; A Single, Unhindered Path; 9: The Shin Buddhist Way of Life; Living with “Prayers for the World”; Shinran’s Instruction; Amida Buddha’s Vows; Vows for the Adornment of the Buddha’s Land; The Wish for Human Fulfillment; True Freedom; The Process of Human Fulfillment; Aspiring for the Fulfillment of Society; True Equality; The Process of Societal Fulfillment; Supernatural Power; Petitionary Prayers and Miracles; Salvation through Self-Control; Will of a Transcendent, Absolute Being; Faith and Self-Modification; Salvation as the Establishment of Personal Subjectivity; Basic Principles of the World and Human Beings; Establishment of a New Personal Subjectivity; 8: Shinjin and Human Life; The Ethics of Shinjin; Shinjin and Society; Ultimate Truth and Worldly Truth; Living in Shinjin; The Starting Point for Understanding Buddhism; The Basic Commonality of All Life; The Teaching “Not to Kill”; The Logic of Harmonious Living; A True Disciple of the Buddha; Soft and Gentle Heart—Firm and Resolute Mind; Eyes that See Beyond the Secular World; A Single, Unhindered Path; 9: The Shin Buddhist Way of Life; Living with “Prayers for the World”; Shinran’s Instruction; Amida Buddha’s Vows; Vows for the Adornment of the Buddha’s Land; The Wish for Human Fulfillment; True Freedom; The Process of Human Fulfillment; Aspiring for the Fulfillment of Society; True Equality; The Process of Societal Fulfillment;