Compassion and Other Power
The Truth of Other Power Deep Within Our Hearts
In Shin Buddhism, we find we live on two planes simultaneously. At one level, we live the world we define in terms of words, ideas, in short, this world of appearances. At another level, there is a world in which the ordinary distinctions dissolve into the deep flow of oneness beyond or even before words. That world of oneness is our true home, the heart of the universe, of true entrusting, where we are received into the heart of boundless compassion. This is ‘Other Power,’ not some reality or being ‘out there,’ outside of us, but the true reality that is more intimate to us than our intellect, that is deep within our heart, where ‘Other Power’ means the truest deepest self, ‘other than ego.’ Together we will discover that heart of other power, great compassion, where our karmic self is illuminated, embraced, and dissolved into the Ocean of Light of Other Power, our Amida self.
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Rev Dr Mark Unno
Mark Unno is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Department Head of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon, specializing in Pure Land, Zen, and Shingon Buddhism. He is the fourteenth-generation minister of Shin Buddhism in his family lineage. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myōe and the Mantra of Light (2004), editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures (2006), and author of articles on Japanese Buddhism, comparative religious thought, interreligious dialogue, and Buddhism and psychotherapy. He has also been President for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. His Buddhist essays are published in such Buddhist journals as Tricycle, Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, and Lion’s Roar. http://mtunno5.weebly.com/
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