6 Cf. Young-Eisendrath 1996:140: ‘Neurosis is a barrier to encountering fully the
meaning in our pain.’
7 Nishitani describes various ways in which this confrontation with death and nihility
can happen. Many times it is through the loss of another person or through the
confrontation with one’s own sickness. See for example Nishitani 1985/86. This is an
autobiographical essay.
8 Sive is Latin, meaning either or or. With this term Nishitani identifies life and death,
being and non-being. Nishitani takes this expression from the Heart Sutra, where form
and emptiness are identified. Abe (1992a:54) suggested using the term qua instead of
sive, since it expresses the identification more clearly.
9 Cf. the following citations from Dogen: ‘The practice of Zen is the dropping off of
body-and-mind: it is just sitting’ and ‘dropping off of body-and-mind means sitting in
Zen meditation’ (Nishitani 1982:185); ‘Through working out a resolution in just
sitting, body and mind comes to drop off. This is the technique for release from the
five desires, the five hindrances and so on’ (Nishitani 1982: 186).
10 Cf. the comment by Ueda, one of Nishitani’s students, on Nishitani’s relationship to
Nishida (Ueda 1992:1): ‘Writing thirty years after his own teacher Nishida Kitaro passed
away, he said, “Even now I tremble when I think of him”. We can see from this that
he was in a sense always face to face with his former mentor.’
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