Drawing from Jane Bachnik's "uchi/soto dynamic" and Kaori Chino's study of Tang-dynasty Chinese art's place in early Japanese regional identity, it introduces a theory of inside-outside positionalities for engaging the meaning-making potential within tropes of inside-outside, foreign-local, ...
Its literal meaning is “sloughing off of body-mind”. 即心是佛 - Sokushin Zebutsu(The Mind Itself is Buddha) Sokushin zebutsu (the mind itself is Buddha), in addition to shikantaza, is one of the most important phrases in Soto Zen Buddhism. Realizing (joto in Japanese) sokushin ...
something necessary to sustain the body as one strives to attain awakening, not something to take pleasure in. The English translation of the third contemplation given here follows the original Chinese. The Japanese rendering used in Soto Zen today contains a grammatical error which, if translated ...
More than 380 mutations in the NSD1 gene have been identified in people with Sotos syndrome. However, In the Japanese population, the most common genetic change leading to Sotos syndrome deletes genetic material from the region of chromosome 5 containing the NSD1 gene. In most other populations,...
Gary Soto attempts to make it understandable, in his short story “Like Mexicans,” that a person’s race is not what defines them completely. Soto married Carolyn, a Japanese woman, after having claimed that he would only marry a woman of Mexican descent. Soto’s best friend Scott highly...
Few religious institutions in Japan have as vibrant a history as Daihonzan Sojiji, one of two head temples of the Sot o Zen sect of Japanese Buddhism. Over the course of seven hundred years, clergy affiliated with Sojiji have been instrumental in guiding the growth and development of Sot ...
The theme of this year's sermons is the Four Principles (Shidai Koryo) of the Shushogi (the meaning of practice and verification).Shushogi is compiled from extracts directly from Dogen Zenji's Shobogenzo.Shushogi has five chapters. The four chapters following the first chapter, "General ...