This paper discusses the term “Divination (rei-kaku 霊覚),” which
Suzuki Daisetz (1870-1966) used in order to describe religious experience
and consciousness. This concept refers to such awareness as the heart of
the individual who has life sufferings related to “the suffering due to the
fetter of deeds (gokke-ku 業繋苦).” These sufferings mean, from his point
of view, critical contradictories with which we are likely to confront in our
lives. He supposed that humans are destined to live these sufferings, which we have difficulties in getting over on the basis of duality or rationalism. He thus explored some ways to find out the relation held together in a unity, a kind of “self-identity of contradictories (mujunteki-jikodoitsu 矛盾的自己
同一).” In other words, in his opinion, human beings must realize that such
contradictory relation is based on the divination to get over the spiritual
suffering due to the fetter of deeds.
This paper, therefore, concludes with the detailed definition of
“divination” which Suzuki Daisetz tried to figure out in his essays, especially
his writings in post-war time, and at the same time, this analysis aims
to illustrate the similarity of philosophical traits between Suzuki Daisetz
and Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) who also examined “self-identity of
contradictories.”
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