Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the SublimeThe understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna. |
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Page 51
... nirvana or freedom into something transcen- dent or wholly other : Life is no different from nirvana , Nirvana no different than life . Life's horizons are nirvana's : The two are exactly the same . The sublime may be beyond the grasp ...
... nirvana or freedom into something transcen- dent or wholly other : Life is no different from nirvana , Nirvana no different than life . Life's horizons are nirvana's : The two are exactly the same . The sublime may be beyond the grasp ...
Page 128
... nirvana be nothing ? Not to be something Does not mean to be nothing . Were nirvana nothing , It would be contingent Like all other nothings . Things are created and contingent ; Nirvana is neither : The letting go of what rises and Is ...
... nirvana be nothing ? Not to be something Does not mean to be nothing . Were nirvana nothing , It would be contingent Like all other nothings . Things are created and contingent ; Nirvana is neither : The letting go of what rises and Is ...
Page 129
... nirvana , Nirvana no different than life . Life's horizons are nirvana's : The two are exactly the same . Visions of the beyond , Of eternity , annihilation Depend on how you see Nirvana , the past and the future . What finitude in ...
... nirvana , Nirvana no different than life . Life's horizons are nirvana's : The two are exactly the same . Visions of the beyond , Of eternity , annihilation Depend on how you see Nirvana , the past and the future . What finitude in ...
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Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime Stephen Batchelor No preview available - 2001 |
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abiding in emptiness acts addictions anguish appear awakening birth Blue Cliff Record Bodhidharma bodhisattva body Buddhanature Buddhist Buddhist tradition cause Center Ch'an China Chuang Tzu ciphr cling Coleridge compulsive confusion consciousness craving create depend described dharma doctrines Dogen Dzogchen ease Emperor Wu entails ephemeral essence eternity everything existential experience feel fire flames forever fused freedom Gautama Geluk HSI-T'ANG Hui-neng human idea India insight into contingency insist intuiting John Keats juna Katyayana Keats know emptiness Kumarajiva lamas language Lao Tzu letting go living Mahayana mangos meditation metaphysical middle monk moral naga Nagar Nagarjuna Nagarjuna's Verses Nagarjuna's vision nature ness never nirvana notion one's oneself path person pristine awareness recognizes reveals sage Sanskrit seed sense Shabkar Shantideva SHIH-KUNG sublime tantric Taoist teachings things thoughts Tibet Tibetan tion trace of emptiness translation of MMK truths Tsongkhapa understanding of emptiness unfold unreal Vacchagotta walker walking Wisdom Discourses words