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About the Numinose experience

I am currently studying religious studies at graduate school in Spain.

Shamefully, I hadn't really thought about Buddhism when I lived in Japan, but now that I'm overseas, I've realized once again that Japan is a Buddhist country, and that it has created many wonderful cultures, and languages, ideas, etc. associated with it.

So, I'm currently doing full-scale research on Buddhism in Spain, but there are things I don't understand in books about Buddhism in Spain, so I have a question I definitely want the monks to answer.

Rudolf Otto, a German religious scholar, expressed with the word “numinose,” a mysterious experience/mystical experience (?) that cannot be expressed in words and cannot be experienced by others I would like you to tell me exactly what it is.

If you express it in Japanese, I think it's probably an “observation experience.” Rudolf Otto also said in his book “The Sacred Thing” that the lips of those who experienced it will be tightly closed when it comes to the content of this experience, but now that I am studying Buddhism, I really want to know what this experience is like.

If you can't explain it in depth in words, you can really just use keywords, so I'd like you to tell me what they are.

This may be a difficult question, but thank you.

4 Zen Responses

I don't know much about other religions or denominations, so just for reference.
I used the word religion when translating Reliance into Japanese in English. The meaning of Relusion is a connection with God, isn't it? However, Buddhism is not about connecting with God. In other words, strictly speaking, Buddhism is not religion (religion).
Also, for example, Christianity has the Bible, so you should probably follow the Bible. However, there is Buddha's idea that it cannot be conveyed in letters, and there is no Bible in Buddhism. Therefore, many sutras were written by many apprentices in the past. These are not sutras written by the Buddha himself, but the Buddha's teachings are scattered in various words. Therefore, we have no choice but to decipher the Buddha's teachings by reading those sutras, and while practicing and confirming the contents of the sutras ourselves, interpreting the lines (true meaning) of those sutras in our own way.
They are divided into many denominations due to differences in interpretation.
Basically, Buddhists are those who believe in Buddha, those who aim for Buddha, and not those who believe in God. (God is interpreted as protecting Buddhas and Buddhists), so numinose (feeling God mystical?) It means that Buddhism doesn't have it.
So when it comes to viewing experiences, I think they vary from denomination to denomination and from person to person. I have no experience, so I don't know, but some people call it that the experience of seeing things as they are without their worries; others call it that feeling the whole universe and oneself become one; others call it that because they feel the salvation of Amitabha Buddha; others call it that because they feel the conscience within themselves; others call it that because they feel the conscience within themselves; and others call it that because they feel all of this worldly fortune broadly and deeply, etc.
Also, it is Buddha's teaching that each person should be different. (That's probably why they thought Buddha couldn't be conveyed in letters)
It's been a long time, but I'm sorry if I made a mistake in what I wrote here. I'm still not studying enough, so please forgive me.
It is probably Buddha's guidance to get involved in Buddhism. Please continue to work hard on your studies.
However, Buddhism isn't just about theory on a desk; it's important to put it into practice in real life.
Also, if you have a chance, try reading old sutras such as the Dhammapada and putting them into practice.
Namu Amida Buddha

appending
It's good to listen to the story at the temple, but let's check the contact beforehand

opinion, generation, cost, impact

Discernment means looking at one's own true nature.
Humans look at 90% of our daily lives through our thoughts.
That's why my own point of view stands out when I see and listen to things.
I think it's a sight. Thoughts. Be thoughtful.
Ninety percent of such activities are involved, so even if you don't know the philosophical point of view, the pedal for exploration is thought from the beginning, so you make a mistake in how to look for it from the first step.
The nature of self, Buddhism, and legality is before human opinion.
The world of philosophy begins with words to know facts in words. That's why they look through a filter from the beginning, so people who have the power to know the real thing without going through a concept are bad.
Zen begins with facts.
Direct access to both watching and listening.
What this body and mind come into contact with is always directly from the production area, pure and clean, and unfriendly to human opinions, so you can enjoy that pure thing in a pure state.
So from the public's point of view, they do something called “stupid” zazen.
If you are a well-understood person who can understand the above, I see, it means that you must never do zazen meditation.
Otherwise, a person in Atama World who sees things through thought will be created.
Zazen people don't have a filter called thought. I live in a direct factual world, so there's no need for nonsense.
If you look at yourself without nonsense, your true state will naturally be elucidated and enlightened there.
That is the local scenery, the original place. It means seeing nature that can never be understood in logic before it is steeped in human thought. However, just looking at it was useful, and I fell into bragging about my once-in-a-lifetime experience. Therefore, it is important that it comes down to nature and nature. That is thorough observation. Daigo's thorough implementation.
If you spend your time with a non-thinking mindset called recklessness, you won't necessarily lose sight of your true nature. Since their ancestors looked at themselves, they realized that what was perceived as their own body and mind had been emptied, and they clearly knew that all acts were impermanent and that laws were unselfish.
If you look at it from another side, the original appearance of nirvana silence becomes clear because there is a sense of tranquility where the troublesome and noisy theoretical logic of humans has disappeared.
People you don't know just celebrate seeing as a mystical experience.
Since I don't know or have any experience, I start talking to Tekito based on speculation. The world's dubious Zen and dubious spirituality are based on “speculation,” so it's a lie.
Be careful not to get blurry even though it's strange. It's about learning from a “master teacher” of laws that have been properly proven.

That's a difficult question

I've never seen or heard such a word at a Soto sect university, a Zen ascetic training center, or a monk's workshop. It's a concept that has nothing to do with us.
I realized that Buddha continued his penance for 6 years after becoming a monk. “There was no point in penance trying to gain supernatural powers or mystical experiences. I was just mischievously draining my strength.” and.

If you have realized that “Japan is once again a Buddhist country, and has given birth to a number of wonderful cultures, and the languages and ideas associated with it,” I would like you not to learn by applying Buddhism to the words of Western theologians, but to learn with the language and thoughts of Japanese monks.

Now, as a separate matter, you can read Japanese Buddhist studies even from overseas if you use the internet inbuds, cinii, and J-stage. It is limited to those that have been converted to PDF. Please make use of it for graduate school research.
Let's search for “mystical experiences” on inbuds (Indian Studies and Buddhist Research Papers Database). You can see that almost nothing has even been studied. On the street, “Buddhism is not a religion. It's philosophy.” This is why it is often said that.

If you want to know it not as your own experience, but simply as knowledge, isn't what is written in William James's “Aspects of Religious Experience” (I think you know it) enough?

As you said, “discerning” in Zen, “seeing the Buddha” in Nembutsumon, and “gaining ground” in the Shingon sect are basically keywords, but...

The experience of watching Nembutsu is described to some extent in the biography “The Light of Japan” by Yamazaki Benei Shonin.

However, since it's a cool, warm, and self-aware world, isn't there much point in not having experienced it yourself and how much knowledge you've gained? I also feel like that, but...

PS
If by any chance you would like to experience Nembutsu in Spain, I can introduce them, or let us know if you are interested in the experience.