 | George William Knox - Japan - 1907 - 274 pages
...around us, nor from books, but from our own souls. The very essence of truth is the knowledge that I am one with the universe and the gods. Clearly perceiving...acting in accordance with it is obedience to the Way. Such obedience is like the great sea, and the various relations to our fellows are like vessels with... | |
 | Tasuku Harada - Japan - 1914 - 214 pages
...of truth is the knowledge that I am one 1 Kanzo Uchimura, "Representative Men of Japan," pp. 170171. with the universe and the gods. Clearly perceiving...acting in accordance with it, is obedience to the Way. Such obedience is like the great sea, and the various relations to our fellows are like vessels with... | |
 | Robert Bellah - Religion - 2008 - 278 pages
...as our bodies are divided from our parents but still are one with them, so are their bodies divided from the spirit of heaven and earth, and the spirit...and acting in accordance with it is obedience to the way.4' As for the destruction of self, ko is the best means: Let us take counsel from our original... | |
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Its essence is to perceive that as our bodies are derived from our parents and are yet one with them, so are their bodies derived from the spirit of heaven and earth, and the spirit of heaven and earth is the offspring of the spirit of the universe; thus... 