REFLECTIONS ON THE DHARMA

• Introduction
• Nagarjuna
• Mahayana and Theravada
• Difficulty in Accepting the Name
• Non-retrogressive stage
• Non-interference
• Good and Evil
• Buddhism and Pessimism
• Escape from Samsara
• Karma and Determinism
• Transience
• Non-duality
• Being and Non-being
• Buddhism and Nihilism
• The Five Aggregates
• Decline of the Dharma
• Initiation and Purification
• Politics and Psychoanalysis
• Pseudo-religion
• Christianity
• Zen
• Misconceptions of Pure Land Doctrine
• Limitations of Zazen
• Wisdom and Compassion
• Alchemy of the Name
• Modernity and the "Three Poisons"
• First Encounters with Japanese Buddhism
• Passion
• Three Ages of the Dharma
• Permissiveness
• Who Is Amida?
• The Futility of Self Power
• Amida as Buddha-Nature
• Saying the Name
• Dharmakara Bodhisattva
• The Call of Amida
• The Meaning of Nembutsu
• Amida's Transfer of Faith
• What is Faith?
• Nama-Japa
• Once-calling and Many-calling
• The Differences Between Buddhism and Protestantism
• The Non-retrogressive State
• The Consolation of the Name
• Gratitude
• The Differences between Jodo and Shin
• The Name of Names
• Problems of Doubt
• The Symbolism of the Pure Land
• Morality and Goodness
• Antinomianism
• Foretaste of the Pure Land
• Rennyo Shonin
• Metanoia
• Altruism
• Maitreya Bodhisattva
• Mahayana
• Materialism
• Modes of Knowing
• Mindfulness
• Ippen
• Distractions
• Surrendering the Will
• Amida's 'Fragrance'
• The Doctrine of 'Consciousness Only'
• Jung
• Reflections of The Moon
• Detachment
• Heaven and Hell
• Amida's Transfer of Merit
• The Gift of Tears
• The Six-Fold Rebirth
• The Promise of Transcendence
• Salvation
• The Crosswise Leap
• The Transformed Pure Land
• Transformation of Nature
• Birthlessness
• Action and Contemplation
• Birth in the Borderland
• Proper Estimation of the Body
• Great Compassion
• Mount Sumeru
• Kannon
• The Great Physician
• Two Rivers and A White Path
• Awakening to One's True Personality
• Eternity
• Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva
• Birds of Paradise
• Transcending our Humanity
• Worlds of Form and Formlessness
• Rebirth
• Mundus Imaginalis
• Spiritual Pollution
• Translucency of the Physical World
• Death
• The Immortal Phoenix
• Genso-Eko
• The Language of the Birds
• Universal Existence
• Pitfalls of Progress