Nothing else, this was the first thing that came to my mind

As for Silent illumination, I would say not-looking into a mirror

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And yet you get hurt when you touch fire. Is that a just dream? The point is understanding emptiness of practice, ideas, interpretations and reality. But it doesn’t mean everything is only illusion (at least not in our common way of understanding it). Both conventional and ultimate true coexist, but until we think and not directly experience non-duality, we’re caught up in duality. The Diamond Sutra really is the master in showings the dialectics of non-duality.

Yes it is, it’s been recompiled in what it knows as the Long Scroll

Which tradition are you from?

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I really recommend Tallahasse Chan center, Guo Gu is very smart and clear in his explanations, he is one of the student of Master Sheng Yen, a Taiwanese monk that revitalized Chan and helped spreading it

On a surface level repeating the Name surely has an anchor like function on a mental level, but there is much more of it. I respect your opinion, but this is a Buddhist community so it DOES matter what the Buddha said, and meditation is not only a practice to focus mind in many traditions.

Cheesecake doesn’t make you think of the Buddha, am I right? Mindfulness of the Buddha is a practice Shakyamuni himself suggested, you can find it in the Pali Canon, not only in Mahayana sutras. Also there is much more than just simply repeating a word, since nembutsu is also tied with the Primal Vows of Amida itself, regarding rebirth in the Pure Land

I just focus on repeating Namu Amida Butsu, even only mentally

I do Shikantaza every day, twice. In my practice there is also Nembutsu that, from a different perspective, can also be seen as a kind of meditation.

No one needs to kill any being

To clarify I’m not referring to the teachings themselves, rather the whole monastic structures - system and rivalries between sects. The local lords of the time had interest in financing some monastics instead of others for example

That’s why Japanese Buddhism is quite messed up, with the whole sectarianism thing and political power entanglement

The first thing that comes to my mind is that when you don’t see a difference between yourself and the others, you live for the benefits of everyone, there isn’t your own happiness or wealth

I specified in the post that I live in Italy, so it may depends on which country does someone live in

And still many Italian people keep saying our government isn’t restricting our freedom

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You missed Satispay, it is available in different countries, made in Italy