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is an act which -with both hands pressed against the other -attempts to play against the fissure between activity and passivity.

This is more clearly exemplified in praying with both hands pressed against the other or simply joined together. Ichikawa observes: In many religions, the reason that one closes his eyes and joins his hands together when he prays is because he attempts to reach by way of this activity a certain pure state that is without the fissure between activity and passivity, between interiority and exteriority, and between subject and object. (P. 25) (Nagatomo 1986 : 382)

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