
“…..I have been talking about each of the Eight aspects of the Eightfold Noble path which Shakyamuni Buddha taught from the beginning and I am nearly at the last which is usually translated as “Right Thought”. Well actually it is not as simple as just “thought”……
In Japanese it is Shiyui (思惟)In the dictionary this is translated to something like “profound thinking” and some philosophers say that it also includes some feeling. In a Buddhist dictionary it says that it includes the visualisation of the image of the Pure Land, the infinite joy world. But to be honest I don’t think that any of those explanations really fit the word “Shiyui”.….
“Shiyui” is to recognise………”
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