Citation

Brown, Andrew James. “We Are at Home Anywhere That We Can Live by the Spirit — Thinking Some More through ‘No-Position.’” Blogspot. Caute, 18 Jan. 2015, https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2015/01/we-are-at-home-anywhere-that-we-can.html.

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This is probably one of Andrew's most moving pieces. I'm glad I haven't deleted it from my read-later app. It has piqued my interest again on walking as both metaphor and practice central to my spirituality.

Perhaps there is no home and no need for one because the real home is the cosmic cooperative community, which isn't something we create and go after. It is already here. The real spiritual practice is how we best be in this place—walking daily. The infrequent Kiitsu Kyōkai and other meetings are meant to strengthen us to continue in the walk.

I feel exiled. From my own family. My own province. The community I grew up in. But remember Mary Oliver—I am never alone.

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Per Paul Wienpahl, reality is what you experience it to be.

Per Paul Wienpahl, being a man without a position should open the door to detachment.

Per Paul Wienpahl, being a man without a position should open the door to detachment.

Per Paul Wienpahl, where will the direction of a man without a position come from? :: Within.

Per Paul Wienpahl, how does a man without a position see the actions of others? :: Cannot judge them.

Per Paul Wienpahl, what is evil? :: That which is recalcitrant or unmanageable.

Per Norbert Fabian Capek, the whole of nature is a cathedral.

Indigenous Japanese Christian movement founded in 1901 by Uchimura Kanzo. :: No-church movement

Founder of the No-church movement in Japan. :: Uchimura Kanzo

Year the Japanese No-church movement was founded. :: 1901

Paul Wienpahl's book that recounts his personal experiences during a six-month stay in a Japanese Buddhist monastery. :: Zen Diary

For Paul Wienpahl, philosophy is not just a scholarly discipline but a spiritual discipline of personal liberation.

Brown calls a personally useful portion of Wienpahl's An Unorthodox Lecture "The Wienpahl Sutra".

Per Brown, what was Tolstoy's understanding of what it means to follow Jesus? :: To become a person without a position living reality directly.

Recount the Buddha's the "Parable of the Raft" briefly. :: A man is trapped on one side of a fast-flowing river. He builds a raft that can take him across the river. For the man to carry the raft on his back is insensible. Instead, the man leaves it behind. The Buddha concluded that his teachings are like the raft that one could use to cross but not to seize hold of.

Jesus saying in the Gospel connected with the Parable of the Raft and Wienpahl's man without a position. :: Foxes and birds have homes but he doesn't

What does Jesus's saying about foxes and birds, the Parable of the Raft, and Wienpah's man without a position teach us about spiritual home. :: There is no final spiritual home. Home is anywhere in reality that we can live by the spirit.

Per Brown, the best model for what a church for the man with a direction but without a position will look like is the natural world.

Source text of the Buddha's "Parable of the Raft." :: A Pali text called the Alagaddupama Sutta.