Jason M Wirth - Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy After Comparative Philosophy

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NIETZSCHE AND OTHER BUDDHAS

WORLD PHILOSOPHIES

Bret W. Davis, D. A. Masolo, and Alejandro Vallega, editors

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2019 by Jason M. Wirth

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For Elizabeth Myen Sikes,

Impish Bodhisattva

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T HIS BOOK IS BORN OF YEARS OF BOTH St Zen practice and valuable philosophical engagement with good books and, more important, my colleagues and students. I have learned more than I can calculate or thank. I would at least like to extend my wholehearted gratitude to my St Zen teacher, Ksh Itagaki, abbot of the Eishoji Zen training and practice facility in south Seattle; to my brother Nathan and his amazing artwork; to my beloved Dharma sisters and brothers of CoZen, especially Brian Shd Schroeder, Bret Kanp Davis, and Erin Jien McCarthy; to my companions at PACT (Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition), especially Gerard Kuperus, Marjolein Oele, Tim Freeman, Chris Lauer, Josh Hayes, Jason Winfree, and Brian Treanor; to my cherished interlocutors in Sweden, Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin; to my many companions at the CCPC (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle), especially David Jones and Michael Schwartz, with whom I have enjoyed spirited discussions regarding the materials and insights in this book for over two decades; to Graham Parkes whose pioneering work on both Nietzsche and comparative thinking is a sine qua non; to the poet, philosopher, and activist Gary Snyder who inadvertently inspired some of these thoughts; to Don Castro and Mark Unno, great teachers in word and deed of the Pure Land; to Sean McGrath of Memorial University in Newfoundland who pushes me hard and compassionately on these issues; and to the many members of the Seattle University EcoSangha, all of whom inspire me with the depth of their practice. Most significantly, I would like to express my gratitude to Elizabeth Myen Sikes, who exemplifies the ordinary profundity of the everyday in all that she does.

May all beings flourish.

A very different version of some parts of the fourth chapter appeared as Death and Resurrection as the Eternal Return of the Pure Land: Tanabe Hajimes Metanoetic Reading of Nietzsche, in The Pasts Presence: Essays on the Historicity of Philosophical Thought (Sdertrn Philosophical Studies 3), edited by Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin, 185201 (Stockholm, Sweden: Sdertrns Hgskola, 2006).

Partial material from the fifth chapter appeared in a different form as When Washing Rice, Know that the Water Is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dgen in the Age of Fast Food, in Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations, edited by Gerard Kuperus and Marjolein Oele, 235244 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017).