... the Kamakura period. He then addresses Shinto's political nature, arguing that it is neither a religious belief nor a manifestation of spirituality. According to Suzuki, Shinto lacks the depth of the stage of negation, as in the logic of affirmation-in-negation (soku-hi), which is stimulated...

...This chapter shows that there are two, or really a negation of women giving birth and an irregular affirmation. The negation is in the flood myth. A woman thwarts her one-night-stand husband and causes him to give birth. The irregularity is the wife of Corn who gives birth normally but after...

...This chapter contains an essay by D. T. Suzuki in which he describes two approaches to the understanding of Zen Buddhism: analytic and synthetic. Using God language and Christian concepts, he discusses Buddhist ideas of negation and affirmation—that is, the logic of affirmation-in-negation. Suzuki...