ABSTRACT
The author wants to continue the exposition and talk of the Kegon philosophy, the philosophy of Zen Buddhism. But first some preliminary remarks and a clarification of the previous lecture. Descartes drew a wrong conclusion from the cogito: namely, thinking is accurate. Kant saw that thinking may err. And so in Zen study the teacher is on guard to keep the student from going astray in his thinking. Finally, the Zen Sect is the most vital in Buddhism because its adherents stress meditation. A Bodhisattva takes a vow to devote himself to society for all his lives. So one have Manju, Fugen, and Kannon, the central Bodhisattvas in the Zen philosophy. Of these, Fugen is the chief one. Mainly, however, it must not be confused with pantheism because that confusion leads Westerners to think that Buddhism is idolatry.
