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Originally Posted by Molearner
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I see Grace as the "ground of being", in which we "live and move and have our being".
In our world of diversification that follows, in linear time, grace then can manifest as "invitation", an "offer" , an exchange........which can morph into any human being thinking they have initiated grace by their act.
The Pure Land writer Unno has said that it is a necessary step on the path that we come to see that what we thought of as self-power (Japanese
jiriki) was in fact Other Power (
tariki.
As the Pure Land cobbler and myokonin Saichi wrote:-
O Saichi! Will you tell us of Other Power?
Yes, but there is neither self power nor Other Power.
What is, is the Graceful Acceptance only.
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