It's all to do with selflessness, the German tells him, the realization that "the object of your self-attachment is an illusion".
Furthermore, it possess functions of self-attachment and self-alignment through magnetic interaction under random collision condition.
Therefore, the probability that narcissism does not enrich the substance of CSR owing to regarding social responsibility as a superficial means to prove oneself and gratify self-attachment is presumed to be high.
Nevertheless, the communication of the intent of the teaching raises special difficulties in Hōnen's Pure Land thought because of the thoroughly negative assessment of human capacities of comprehension undistorted by self-attachment.
Shōkū's thinking about ethical life reflects the same elements seen in relation to benefits in this life: the person continues to act out of ignorance and self-attachment, but conduct manifesting oneness with Amida Buddha may also emerge spontaneously.
First, the animating force that initially gave rise to the Mahayana movement as a whole the critical reflection on obdurate self-attachment that attended even religious endeavor was pursued to a culmination in Pure Land aspiration.
Above all, the emergence of such issues within the context of a thoroughgoing application of the general Mahayana critique of self-attachment in religious praxis gave rise to the most innovative philosophical reflection in the Japanese Pure Land tradition.
The rigorous scrutiny of even religious praxis for vestiges of self-attachment and discriminative thinking, which informed the origins of the Mahayana movement, also provided impetus for its development as the Pure Land path.
Mahayana Buddhists asserted that such praxis did not free practitioners from a final residue of self-attachment manifested in the desertion of the beings of samsara in favor of personal liberation and in an attachment to the goal of nirvana itself.
The ethical ideal of genuinely compassionate action action that leads others to liberation from ignorance exists in the present for the nembutsu practitioner as a goal one looks forward to in the future, beyond all falsification by self-attachments.
Meditation is believed to counteract this tendency in favor of a condition of equanimity where the provisional nature of one's own conceptual structure is realized, bringing about a greater freedom of thought and action as well as a decreased sense of self-attachment.
