Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so I always get emails after an episode's released but after last episode there's a notable increase in two specific kinds of emails I get one was an increase in the number of people saying the episode LED them to a pretty deep shift in the ways they're thinking about things that kg nishitani is opening them up to a whole new interesting way of exploring what it is to exist the other was an increase and the number of people saying they don't quite get it that while they appreciate it and are sticking with it that it's such a different way of thinking that it's difficult to wrap my mind around what's truly being said here just felt the need to acknowledge this before we talk about nishitani's views on religion today I mean I know it must sound like a broken record lately be sure to listen to every episode from 2011 up until this one if you want to understand what's being talked about look it's not like I'm trying to annoy you or to be overly complicated it's just a gift I have really no but there's episodes of this podcast where we're doing something different some episodes are trying to cover things a little more broadly across a thinker's entire work it casts a wide net that's what some of the episodes we do do but those are always going to be episodes that can never hit you as hard as when we talk about more the context of where I thinker is coming from their influences the deeper conversations that they were embedded in I mean just for example you know it's been said by some Buddhist before that look you can explain all of Buddhism to someone in just three sentences you can say emptiness is form form is emptiness the two are not separate and you can imagine someone hearing it and saying oh yeah I I guess I get it then I mean I understand those sentences in the English language so I guess I Now understand all of Buddhism don't I but you can also imagine this person thinking that they get it but not quite getting it you can imagine those three sentences when understood at a deeper level with a bit more context have the ability to not ...