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2019.08.29 13:08

Excerpts from The Two Acolytes by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

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It is hard to convey the gentleness and beauty of women, either in words or pictures.

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The truth is, the outside world is not a dream, not an illusion. It’s a sheer delight—in fact a paradise, the Western Pure Land here on earth. I have no use any more for the doctrine of “Three Thousand Phenomena in a Single Thought” or for the meditation on “The Perfect Interpenetration of the Three Truths.” Believe me, the joy of being just a common layman involved with the passions is infinitely preferable to being an ascetic practicing the “Perfect and Sudden Way” to enlightenment. I urge you to change your way of thinking and come down from the mountain at once.

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The Pure Land of Perfect Bliss, believed to be billions of worlds away, lies just below your mountain.
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  • Dec Sacety 2019.08.29 13:30

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    what if I can draw them?
  • Kitty 2019.08.29 13:51

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    The last picture is "金陵十二钗"the twelve women in Jinling
  • Exene 2019.08.29 14:43

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    如果说的不好,请你帮我指正😊
  • Hofn 2019.08.30 15:26

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    I need to correct that pronunciation" bliss" was wrong in my vioce comment
  • Anna 2019.08.30 22:43

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    wow I like

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