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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... Nagar- juna is arguably the most important figure in Buddhism after the Buddha himself , very little is known about him . All that can be said with any certainty is that he lived at some time around the second century C.E. in India and ...
... Nagar- juna is arguably the most important figure in Buddhism after the Buddha himself , very little is known about him . All that can be said with any certainty is that he lived at some time around the second century C.E. in India and ...
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... the mind . Lao Tzu advises a daily process of subtraction in order that one's life can be filled . Nagar- juna declares that emptiness is the middle way itself . For Hui - neng , emptiness " includes the sun , VERSES FROM THE CENTER 43.
... the mind . Lao Tzu advises a daily process of subtraction in order that one's life can be filled . Nagar- juna declares that emptiness is the middle way itself . For Hui - neng , emptiness " includes the sun , VERSES FROM THE CENTER 43.
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... Nagar- juna , this is but a convenient illusion . Consciousness is meaningless unless it is conscious of something ; it is inex- tricable from the sense organs and objects that enable it to take place ; it is as contingent and ephemeral ...
... Nagar- juna , this is but a convenient illusion . Consciousness is meaningless unless it is conscious of something ; it is inex- tricable from the sense organs and objects that enable it to take place ; it is as contingent and ephemeral ...
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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