SchoolOfIroha
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As flowers are brilliant but (inevitably) fall,
who could remain constant in our world? (No one could.)
Today let's transcend the high mountain of transience,
and there will be no more shallow dreaming, no more drunkenness.
~- Kukai (774-835AD, Japanese Heian era)
"Kukai held, along with the Hua-yen (Jp. Kegon) school that all phenomena were 'letters' in a 'world-text'. Mantra, mudra, and mandala are special because they constitute the 'language' through which the Dharmakaya (i.e. Reality itself) communicates. Although portrayed through the use of anthropomorphic metaphors, Shingon does not see the Dharmakaya Buddha as a god, or creator. The Dharmakaya is in fact a symbol for the true nature of things which is impermanent and empty of any essence."
Visitors to the School are invited to contemplate Iroha and the Current Manifesto.
