Abstract
The lecture revolves around the movement of the "true self" described with the terms breakthrough and return, as explained by Ueda using the picture cycle "the ox and his shepherd". By focusing on this motif, the lecture follows current hypotheses in Ueda research, according to which Eckhart's influence on Ueda's thinking can be demonstrated based on his reading of the picture cycle.
In order to be able to describe Eckhart's influence on Ueda's thinking, it must first be highlighted, what the peculiarity of this thinking consists of. In the course of the subsequent description of the - phenomenologically speaking - movement of the true self from the world into the world, the multifaceted nature and originality of Ueda's Eckhart reception are discussed.
The relevant elements from Eckhart's thinking are discussed and Ueda's conception of the "double trinity" of the "selfless self" is contrasted with Eckhart. Ueda's "Phenomenology of the Self in Zen Buddhism", undertaken in conjunction with the ox images, also makes it possible to to consider its relationship to phenomenology.
Here, Ueda is by no means presented as a phenomenologist in the purest sense, but rather, with Ueda, he looks at phenomenology from its limits.