>how is preservant labor different from resting on your wife's lap
This is the poetic shit I'm talking about. Replacing the Sephiroths with the ten suchnesses leads to the following formulation
<How is Function (activity) different from Primary Cause (direct cause)?
Suddenly here's a question that answers itself. Thanks to Kuramajiva's genius for giving a clear concise system.
>>141168
You might have missed the part where I said I studied it and realized it's basically a downgraded, overly mystified version of Ichinen Sanzen. You're the one getting filtered into mystification and poetic roleplay.
So whatever, I'll do a sales pitch for it. At least it will cause merit.
Ichinen Sanzen describes the totality of all experience, it means three thousand realms in a single moment. The number isn't chosen arbitrarily but comes from the 10 realms (hell, hungry ghosts, animals, asuras, humans, devas, learners, the self-enlightened, bodhisattvas, buddha) each containing 10 realms within itself (if it sounds familiar to how every sephiroth contains a kabbalah within itself, then it's not a coincidence), influenced by the 10 Suchnesses (10 factors that compose every thing), existing within one of the three worlds ("self", other beings, world). 10 realms X 10 realms X 10 suchnesses X 3 worlds = 3,000 worlds in a single moment of existence.
In a single moment of existence meaning they're not separate realities, but each is happening and manifesting itself within every single waking moment. Sounds familiar to the kabbalah? Because they're the same thing.
The same thing with a caveat, the kabbalah mixes the 10 realms with the 10 suchnesses, lacks the 3 worlds and is confusing after centuries-long intergenerational rabbi phone games.
Study the clarity of the 10 suchnesses, that explain the functioning of all things:
A flower has the form of a flower, it has the nature of being a plant with petals, it has the potency to blossom, the function to grow, its embodiment is "flower"/"flower-nature", its primary cause is a seed in the ground, its secondary cause is water and sunlight, its effect is pollen, its recompense is seeds being spread by bees, its complete fundamental whole is the totality of all the previous nine.
This can be applied to everything, including mental phenomena. Here you have a true universal map, that doesn't rely on jewish names, or poetics about resting on your wife's lap.
But that's not all! What if I told you, that you don't only get a static map describing all phenomena rationally, but also a way to reach the state of "ain soph" in each and every one of them, have all Buddhist Gods (as they run out karma, most devas will eventually need buddhism to avoid reincarnation in the lower realms, so chances are, many pagan gods have already converted) come to your aid, unite the microcosm with the macrocosm, move the totality of the net of cause and effect to one's advantage, burn one's earthly desires while having them fulfilled, and become a bodhisattva by achieving the absolute truth of reality? That's right, you can get all of this and more by just reciting the Daimoku towards the Gohonzon.
Unfortunately this would require me to explain what makes the Lotus Sutra so special, and we're already running out of time for this segment.