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a sense of the personal
bruce, what happened to ohsawa - remember, he beat a death sentence - was nothing if not personal - but (and this is the question) was he introduced to "oriental philosophy" at age eighteen?
who was the agent of his salvation? did ohsawa recognize him immediately?
(ordinarily, we don't say that salvation derives from an agent. the agent is usually a messenger - that is, the reprieve from the governor is carried by someone. the word for messenger in greek is "angelos" - thus, "angel" in english.)
ohsawa needed to look past the messenger in order to determine on whose behalf the person was acting.
what do you figure - on whose behalf did he figure that ishizuka was acting?
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