Three main strains of thinking emerged.
Others, however, such as Shinran, Shōkū (1177 1247), and Ippen (1239 1289), pursued the development of Hōnen's radical teaching, each in his own distinctive way, and it is among such figures that we find the more philosophical strains of thinking.
"There is a strain of thinking that, frankly, I think is racist: that African-American culture consists of a lack of ownership and a lack of authorship, and everybody just does things together – a noble savage kind of deal.
It's easy, and all too often tempting, to dismiss the urge towards the sentimental, to think of sentimentality as a childish emotion, a self-indulgent strain of thinking that elevates shallow reaction to the level of important emotional insight.
Still, Mr. Kupchan said, the Newsweek draft may represent a genuinely new strain of thinking.
"There's a strain of thinking that music on TV is only really good when it fucks up," says Cooper.
And yet, the prime minister was voicing a strain of thinking – feeling, more accurately – that lurks somewhere deep in the Israeli psyche.
This potential gives rise to a separate strain of thinking about virtue.
More than anything else, it resembles a Ponzi scheme and the wild claims made on its behalf reveal a great deal about a libertarian strain of thinking with deep roots in the American psyche.
In France, it perversely vindicates a strain of thinking that the state should actively uproot the unseemly attachment to faith that its Muslim citizens have.
This, then – the irresistible temptation of some strains of Labour thinking to meddle, to resist true autonomy, and to set themselves against private involvement – is the bad.
