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Perfect freedom in Buddhism

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Amida's Original Prayer (hongwan, pürvapranidhana) is beyond conception and understanding because we human beings live in a world of oppositions and contradictions.
But because of this limitation we constantly aspire to transcend it and to be free from all earthly restrictions.
In other words, it is because of Amida's belonging to the realm of infinite that we yearn intensely for his Original Prayer to work upon us by all means.
To go beyond oppositions and contradictions is to plunge into the depths of Nirvana—a deed impossible for us limited beings to accomplish by ourselves. Nirvana means Bud-dhahood. We are all miserable beings in the midst of the ocean of birth and death (samsãra), of defilement (klesa), and ignorance (avidya). Unless we take hold of Amida's helping hands we are hopelessly doomed to go through the endless cycle of causal relationship and karmic trans-migration. Amida's helping hands are his Original Prayer, without which, though we do not know how, we can never rise above the dialectic of contradicting realities.
Buddhism refuses to waste time on conceptualization; it wishes to hurry on to existential facts. For this reason, Buddhists, especially Shin Buddhists, look to the wonderful power (bala) of Amida's Original Prayer in the midst of miseries and sufferings in which we sentient beings are daily living. There are no evils that can interfere with Amida's Prayer, nor are there any goods that can surpass its inherent power.

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Ketersediaan

B02363

294.3 PER p

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No. Panggil

294.3 PER p

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Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press., 1968

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 183 hlm.

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Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

893460346

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294.3

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Budha

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