A Japanese Perspective of the Mind-Body-Land Connection
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Hiroshi Abe
Abstract
In this paper, I aim to interpret the mind-body-land connection that Christianity and Buddhism suggestively teach as a three-stage extension process of the field of experience, which proceeds accordingly as the three-step movement of our experience develops.
Drawing on the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro, I first show why the mind or one’s subjective consciousness deserves to be regarded as the field of experience corresponding to the first phase of the movement of experience. I then explore how the second phase of the movement of experience requires the body as its corresponding field, which also serves as a seat of super-individual unity provided by the unifying power of nature. On this basis, I finally argue that this transpersonal power of nature is combined with that of society. Inspired by the Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, I thus seek to clarify that these both powers are merged into the land as the ultimate field of our experience.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Preface
- Preface
- I. Time and Nature
- Embedded Agency in Early Chinese Philosophy: Time, Place, and Orientation
- Humanized Nature and Reversed Time
- Nature Is Republican – Nature and Freedom in Kant and Schelling
- Indigenous Accounts of Spiraling Time
- II. Nature and Responsibility
- What Do We Owe Future Generations
- From Guilt to Shame: Ecocide Responses East and West
- African Environmental Ethics and Its Ontological Foundations
- Ethics of Motherhood in Chinese Traditions
- III. Nature and Culture
- Japanese Gardens: Time of Letting – Time of Growth
- The Great Wall and Time
- Season and History
- A Japanese Perspective of the Mind-Body-Land Connection
- Stepping-out-of-Oneself: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Power of Things
- Auge und Atem. Ist ein weicher Weg der Modernisierung möglich?
- IV. Time and Interreligious Dialogue
- The Tea Ceremony and Christian Mass: Encounter between the Tea Masters and Jesuit Missionaries
- Spirituality and Society: A Way to Search for the Common Good
- “Resacralizing” the Cosmos in a Post-secular Age
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
